Top 25 Hendra Quotes
#1. Horses aren't native to Australia. They are exotic, first brought there by European settlers barely more than two centuries ago. Hendra is probably an old virus, according to the runic evidence of its genome, as read by molecular evolutionists.
David Quammen
#2. Others are new and inexplicably sporadic, claiming a few victims (as Hendra does) or a few hundred (Ebola) in this place or that, and then disappearing for years.
David Quammen
#3. A plate of Ebola virions mixed with Hendra virions would resemble capellini in a light sauce of capers.
David Quammen
#4. You see, dear - I think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people... and those who don't.
Tony Hendra
#5. All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.
Gotye
#6. There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
John Ashcroft
#7. All evil begins with this belief: that another's existence is less precious than mine.
Tony Hendra
#8. Wittgenstein once said: the mystery is, why does the universe exist at all?
Tony Hendra
#9. Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason ...
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#10. That is a zombie ... Holy fucking shit. That's a mother fucking zombie and this shit is real.
Diana Rowland
#11. Hell is being alone for all eternity. Alone, unloved, unloving.
Tony Hendra
#12. For him, a universe imbued with the divine was not something to make you bow down but something to reassure you. The divinity of all things is normal, not awesome.
Tony Hendra
#13. You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.
Chicken John
#15. The ordinary was the divine, where common sense met mystery, where logic kissed the cheek of the inexplicable, the immeasurable, immemorial spirit throbbing like veins beneath the hard gray asphalt of quotidian life.
Tony Hendra
#16. Blessed are the generous, for they know their riches belong to others. Blessed
Tony Hendra
#17. If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.
Sharon Shinn
#18. This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again.
Tony Hendra
#19. History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead.
Tony Hendra
#20. Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.
Julian Barnes
#21. My body remembers: this is what it is to be filled by love, instead of despair.
Jodi Picoult
#22. I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing
and worse, of having to continue to exist.
Tony Hendra
#23. For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
Derrick Jensen
#24. I'm a little frightened, perhaps. We always are, aren't we? When we have to open a door that's always been there...but we've never opened. [...] I mean frightened by the immensity of what lies beyond the door. A God of Love--infinite and eternal. How could I ever be worthy of that?
Tony Hendra
#25. Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.
Tony Hendra
