L14477 Quotes & Sayings

In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because I think he misdescribes the importance of the deaths of others and focuses exclusively on my relation to my own death. But, in reality, the deaths of others have a more urgent and immediate impact on our lives than the purely notional knowledge that I too will one day die. — George Pattison

An unusual problem developed when a case of smallpox was brought to the hospital. Smallpox was too contagious to be allowed on the wards. Its victims had to be specially isolated. But where? Osler drove the patient up to the mayor of Hamilton's home, a sure way of getting action. Special accommodation was arranged in a secluded house. Osler visited the patient twice a day until he died, and then did an autopsy on the spot, helped by the German housekeeper. — Michael Bliss

How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire? — Francis Quarles

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling. — Tori Spelling

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing. — Alanis Morissette

I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more — Alan Greenspan