“Remember when we treated the flu with chicken soup, saltines and warm tea instead of communism!”
Emailed by a friend October 16, 2021 [I believe original with him]
“researchers who study emotion regulation – how we cope, or fail to cope, with the daily swirl of feelings – are discovering that many anxious people are bound and determined (though not always consciously) to cultivate anxiety.”
A Newsweek item quoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 11, 2011
“Karol Wojtyla who would later tell the French writer André Frossard that the most important world in the Gospels was ‘truth’…”
George Weigel Witness to Hope
“You say I’m a bitch like it’s a bad thing.”
One of the “Expressions for women under stress” found on the Internet, in Globe & Mail March 16, 2001
“Writing shortly after the Roman disaster at Adrianople in 378 AD, the able historian Ammianus recited a similar list of disasters, and summed up by saying that Rome had come back from all of them and, given political will and good fortune, would do so again. Thirty years later, the Visigoths were in Rome.”
Eric Morse in Globe & Mail August 17 2004
“he looked upon us as a sort of animals, to whose share, by what accident he could not conjecture, some small pittance of reason had fallen, whereof we made no other use, than by its assistance, to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones, which nature had not given us; that we …had been very successful in multiplying our original wants, and seemed to spend our whole lives in vain endeavours to supply them by our own inventions…”
The narrator’s account of his Houyhnhnm master’s judgement on humans, in Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
“Expectations are resentments under construction.”
Anne Lamott, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail July 27, 2001
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
Stephen King, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 28, 2007