Infectiousness Quotes & Sayings

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Cannot The Kingdom of Salvation take me home? — Cliff Burton

A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. — Steve Blank

Lillian frowned up at him. "Before you start to criticize, Wes'cliff, I should like to point out that I am not the first person ever to get her finger stuck in a bottle. It happens to people all the time."
"Does it? You must be referring to Americans. Because I've never seen an Englishman with a bottle stuck on his finger. Even a foxed one."
"I'm not foxed, I'm only - where are you going?"
"Stay there," Marcus muttered, striding from the room. — Lisa Kleypas

This penetrating vocabulary of "initiatory acts," "the infectiousness of the unconflicted person," "priority magic," and so on allows us to understand more subtly the dynamics of group sadism, the utter equanimity with which groups kill. It is not just that "father permits it" or "orders it." It is more: the magical heroic transformation of the world and of oneself. This is the illusion that man craves, as Freud said, and that makes the central person so effective a vehicle for group emotion. — Ernest Becker

25Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost [2] k those who draw near to God l through him, since he always lives m to make intercession for them. — Anonymous

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms. — Wallace Stevens

Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen. — Xenocrates

Poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing. — May Sarton

Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four. — Rose McGowan

Too bad I couldn't take Hopper out drinking with me. He could have become Bar Hopper. — Richelle Mead

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me. — Gina Carano

Sinatra's idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn't know it, but he'd be better off if it were the other way around. — Humphrey Bogart

If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order - preferably a system of world government - is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago. When we finally come to our senses and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremburg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary. — Walter Cronkite