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. . . SACRED see "RELIGION" for related links sacrosanct SAK-roh-sankt, adjective: Sacred; inviolable.  ;void(0)) SACRED PLACES . . see "RELIGION" for related links A very old Aboriginal man was showing us around Uluru (Ayers Rock) It was the first time he had visited the rock since his childhood [he had lived in a cave], as he dislikes the idea of *tourists* there. He couldn't speak English but my work-mate Neil was translating. It is a culturally sensitive site, well managed by the traditional owners and we came across a sign which stated in several languages Please Do Not Photograph Here -Sacred Site. I watched as a group of (German) tourists got themselves into also sorts of positions to furiously snap this *site* with as much discretion as they could muster- and I felt a little sad that there was so little respect being shown. It was then that I noticed the old man cackling away and whispering something in Pitjantjatjara to Neil who joined in the mirth. The translation relayed to me was... "That isn't a sacred site at all..it's right behind us..no sign no nothing." A smart bit of tourist *psychology* I thought! It wasn't even given an idle glance. --unknown writer in alt. quotations - SACRED PLACES: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/sacredplacesintro.html ----- sanctum SANK-tum, noun; plural sanctums or sancta: 1. A sacred place. 2. A place of retreat where one is free from intrusion. . . see "CHARACTER" for related links see "KINDNESS" for related links I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. --John Adams (1735—1826) First VP and second President of the United States. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. --Bible "John" 15:13 - When they sacrifice a wretched Indian they saw open the chest with stone knives and hasten to tear out the palpitating heart and blood and offer it to their idols in whose name the sacrifice is made. Then they cut off the thighs, arms and head and eat the former at feasts and banquets, and the head they hang up on some beams; the body of the man is not eaten but given to their fierce animals. --Bernal Diaz del Castillo (c. 1498—c. 1568) Spanish historian. _The Conquest of New Spain_ [c. 1560] Vol. 2 [1910 edn.] & see: And when he [the priest] had laid him [the captive] upon it [the sacrificial stone on the pyramid's temple], four men stretched him out, [grasping] his arms and legs. And already in the hand of the fire priest lay the [sacrificial knife] ... and then, when he has split open the breast, he at once seized his heart. And he whose breast he laid open was quite alive. and when [the priest] had seized his heart, he dedicated it to the sun. --Bernardino de Sahagun (c. 1500—1590) Franciscan missionary. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. - It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have every known. (Syndey Carton's thoughts on the steps of the guillotine, taking the place of Charles Darnay whom he had smuggled out of prison.) --Charles Dickens (1812—1870) English novelist. Final words of _A Tale of Two Cities_ [1859]. There are no laurels for the lazy ... If by bad luck I am ever captured I command you — and you will answer for it with your head — that in my absence you will disregard my orders, that you will advise my brother, and that the state will stoop to no unworthy act to achieve my liberation. On the contrary, in such an event I order that even greater energy shall be displayed. --Frederick II [Frederick the Great] (1712—1786) King of Prussia [1740—1786]. (To Podewils [7 March 1741]). To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. --Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (1947— ) Norhern Irish politician. Preface to _The Price of My Soul_ [1969] It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master. But if you ever hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it's your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself — that will be the man who's not after your soul. --Ellsworth Monkton Toohey, a villain in Ayn Rand (1905—1982) _The Fountainhead_ [1943], Part 4, Ch. 14 When a person stands ready to offer his life for another, he obviously knows what he's doing. I wouldn't have believed you capable of such a sacrifice, but you never know what a human being is capable of. Not that those who make the sacrifices are always saints. People sacrificed themselves for Stalin, for Petlura, for Machno, for every pogromist. Millions of fools will give their empty heads for Hitler. At times I think men go around with a candle looking for an opportunity to sacrifice themselves. --Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904—1991) Polish-American novelist who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. _Shosha_ Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892) English poet. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" [1854], st. 2 - Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. --Song of Songs 8:7, epitaph (engraved on memorial in a Bronx cemetary) for Isidor and Ida Straus who died on the Titanic. Ida (63) twice had the opportunity to take a place on a lifeboat but chose to stay with her husband instead. She insisted that her maid take her place on the lifeboat and handed the young woman her fur coat saying, "I won't need this anymore." ----- immolate [IM-uh-layt], transitive verb: 1. To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice 2. To kill or destroy, often by fire. . . see "UNHAPPINESS" for related links see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart. --Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741—1794) French playwright and conversationalist. I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more — the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort — to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grow cold, grows small and expires — and expires, too soon, too soon — before life itself. --Joseph Conrad [Teodor Józef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski] (1857—1924) Polish-born English novelist. Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821—1881), Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer. _Crime and Punishment_ [1866], ch. V, pt. III The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you. --Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919— ) American Beat poet and publisher. _Pictures of the Gone World_ [1955] The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940) American novelist. "Egyptian Proverb," _The Crack-up_, ed. by Edmund Wilson Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Elective Affinities_, [1809] The tide recedes but leaves behind bright seashells in the sand, The sun goes down but gentle warmth still lingers on the land. The music stops, and yet echoes on in sweet refrains...For every joy that passes, something beautiful remains. --M.D. Hughes There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. --Carl Gustav Jung (1875—1961) Swiss psychologist. Believe me, every heart has its sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882) American poet. If in this troubled world of ours I still must linger on, My only friend shall be the moon, Which on my sadness shone, When other friends were gone. --Emperor Sanjo (976—1017) The 67th emperor of Japan. Poem, after 1016; William N. Porter (trans.) _A Hundred Verses from Old Japan_ [1979] p.68. The tragedy of man is what dies inside himself while he still lives. --Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965) Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor. _The Philosophy of Civilization_ [1923] The best thing for being sad. . . is to learn something. --T. H. [Terence Hanbury] White (1906—1964) English novelist. _The Sword in the Stone_ [1938] For of all the sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been.' --John Greenleaf Whittier (1807—1892) American poet. "Maud Miller" [1854], stanza 53 ----- anhedonia (noun) [ćn-hee-‘don-i-yę] The lack of a capacity to enjoy pleasure. chagrin shuh-GRIN, noun: 1. Acute vexation, annoyance, or embarrassment, arising from disappointment or failure. 2. To unsettle or vex by disappointment or humiliation; to mortify. forlorn fur-LORN; for-, adjective: 1. Sad and lonely because deserted, abandoned, or lost. 2. Bereft; forsaken. 3. Wretched or pitiful in appearance or condition. 4. Almost hopeless; desperate. lachrymose (adj.) 1. Crying or tending to cry easily and often 2. So sad as to make people cry maudlin (máwdlin) Sentimental: overly or tearfully sentimental, especially because affected by alcohol maud·lin·ism noun maud·lin·ly adverb maud·lin·ness noun plaintive [PLAYN-tiv], adjective: Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. Ex.: Meanwhile Jack Byron's plight in France was becoming desperate and his letters to his sister increasingly plaintive. --Phyllis Grosskurth, "Byron: The Flawed Angel" plangent [PLAN-juhnt], adjective: 1. Beating with a loud or deep sound, as, "the plangent wave." 2. Expressing sadness; plaintive. repine (verb) 1. To feel or express dejection 2. To long for something. threnody (noun) A poem or song of mourning or lamentation. Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, lament . . Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880) English novelist. Better a live sparrow than a stuffed eagle. --Edward Fitzgerald (1809—1883) English scholar and poet. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Historical Review of Pennsylvania_ [1759] Note: the quote has also been attributed to Franklin in: Reply to the Governor [11 November 1755] _The Papers of Benjamin Franklin_, ed. Leonard E. Labaree, vol. 6, p. 242 [1963]. A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. --Grace Murray Hopper (1906—1992) American Rear Admiral, Ph.D., and computer scientist. Do not ride in cars: they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents. . . .Do not stay at home: 17% of all accidents occur in the home. . . Do not walk on the streets or pavements: 14% of all accidents occur to pedestrians. . . Do not travel by air, rail, or water: 16% of all accidents happen on these. . . Only .001% of all deaths occur in worship services in church, and these are usually related to previous physical disorders . . . Hence the safest place for you to be at any time is at church! --Mark Leslie You will be safest in the middle. --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.—18 A.D.) Roman poet. "Metamorphoses" ;void(0)) SALT LAKE CITY . . see "PLACES" for related links Salt Lake City was healthy--an extremely healthy city. They declared that there was only one physician in the place and he was arrested every week regularly and held to answer under the vagrant act for having 'no visible means of support.' --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Roughing It_ [1872] ;void(0)) SAND . . see "NATURE" for related links Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, 'You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash and heated it, we could make a material that would be solid and yet transparent. We could call it glass.' Call me obtuse, but you could stand me on a beach till the end of time and never would it occur to me to try to make it into windows. Much as I admire sand's miraculous ability to be transformed into useful objects like glass and concrete, I am not a great fan of it in its natural state. To me, it is primarily a hostile barrier that stands between a car park and water. It blows in your face, gets in your sandwiches, swallows vital objects like car keys and coins. In hot countries, it burns your feet and makes you go 'Ooh! Ah!' and hop to the water in a fashion that people with better bodies find amusing. When you are wet, it adheres to you like stucco, and cannot be shifted with a fireman's hose. But -- and here's the strange thing -- the moment you step on a beach towel, climb into a car or walk across a recently vacuumed carpet it falls off. For days afterwards, you tip astounding, mysteriously undiminishing piles of it onto the floor every time you take off your shoes, and spray the vicinity with quantities more when you peel off your socks. Sand stays with you for longer than many contagious diseases. And dogs use it for a lavatory. No, you may keep sand as far as I am concerned. --Bill Bryson (1951- ) American writer of humorous travel books. _Notes From a Small Island_ [1996] - kap informs USENET in 2000: One year we took a trip to Florida (Disneyworld, etc) and ended up at Daytona Beach. We drove down to the water's edge, got out, and started strolling along the beach. We didn't give a thought to the possibility of high or low tide. Naturally, the tide started coming in and we got stuck in the sand. Entrepreneurs being what they are, a fellow came along in a truck and said for $15 he would pull us out. And me, being the stubborn person that I can be, said no thank you. Well my two kids and wife (Margaret) thought there was a good possibility of the car sinking and being taken to the Bahamas, or perhaps Europe. So after I analyzed the situation I deftly resolved to take the next offer of assistance. For $20 I had the car pulled out. . . see "PLACES" for related links I left my heart in San Francisco High on the hill it calls to me. To be where little cables cars Climb halfaway to the stars, The morning fog may chill the air -- I don't care. --Douglas Cross and George Cory "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" [1954 song] I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans, here in San Francisco, than in any other place I have ever visited; and it my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. --Hinton R. Helper (1829-1909) American writer. _Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction_ [1855] I went to San Francisco. I saw the bridges high, Spun across the water Like cobwebs in the sky. --Langston Hughes (1902-1967) American writer and poet. "Trip: San Francisco" [1958 poem] in _The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes_, ed. Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel [1994]. San Francisco has only one drawback. 'Tis hard to leave. --Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English writer and poet. _American Notes_ [1891] I have compiled the following almanac expressly for the latitude of San Francisco: Oct. 17 -- Weather hazy; atmosphere murky and dense. An expression of profound melancholy will be observable upon most countenances. Oct. 18 -- Slight earthquake. Countenances grow more melancholy. . . . Oct. 23 -- Mild, balmy earthquakes. Oct. 24 -- Shaky. Oct. 25 -- Occasional shakes, followed by light showers of bricks and plastering. N.B.--Stand from under! Oct. 26 -- Considerable phenomenal atmospheric foolishness. About this time expect more earth- quakes; but do not look for them, on account of the bricks. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. "A Page from a California Almanac" [1865] About the 1906 earthquake: http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html - The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. --attributed to Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot - When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it. --Transword Getaway Guide, _San Francisco_ [1975-1976] [After the plane landed the flight] attendant said, 'Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to welcome you to San Francisco. Unfortunately, this is Las Vegas.' --anon. As reported by Dwayne Chestnut, in Herb Caen column in "San Francisco Chronicle" [11 August 1993] . . see "CHRISTMAS" see "HOME & FAMILY" for other related links I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. --Shirley Temple Black (1928- ) American child-actress and ambassador to the United Nations. The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. --George Carlin (1937- ) American stand-up comedian and author. - Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps. "Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence." --Francis Pharcellus Church (1839-1906) American journalist. http://www.newseum.org/yesvirginia/ - Dispel not, the happy delusions of children. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. If you ever have to steal money from your kid, and later on he discovers it's gone, I think a good thing to do is to blame it on Santa Claus. --Jack Handey (1949- ) American comedian and comedy writer. - One of the things we all remember, don't we, is the day we found out. Someone told us; we overheard; we suddenly realized. We did our best not to show disappointment, of course -- we might even have pretended for a while that we didn't know, for the sake of the younger siblings, or even to keep our parents happy. This was growing up; we had to take it "like a man," show that we were not really surprised, that we didn't especially care. And this is, of course, why he's there: set up for children to see through, when they are ready. He is an ingenious initiation device, whose vanishing means that the line between innocence and "the age of reason" has been crossed. In this rite of passage there is no revelation, only demystification. No guide is provided for the initiate either; she is left to find out the truth, *for herself*. All of a sudden she learns many things: that parents are *not* always what they seem, that she should greet information with caution at all times, and never again expect kindness just because she exists. --Margaret Visser South-Aftican born Canadian professor, writer, and broadcaster. "No, Virginia," from _The Way We Are_, a 1994 collection of her columns that originally appeared in the Canadian magazine "Saturday Night." - Calvin: Well. I've decided I *do* believe in Santa Claus, no matter how preposterous he sounds. Hobbes: What convinced you? Calvin: A simple risk analysis. I want presents. *Lots* of presents. Why risk not getting them over a matter of belief? Heck, I'll believe anything they want. Hobbes: How cynically enterprising of you. Calvin: It's the spirit of Christmas. --Bill Waterson II (1958- ) American cartoonist, creator of "Calvin and Hobbes." - end page | SACRED - SANTA CLAUS | SARCASM - SCHOOL | SCIENCE - SCULPTURE | SEA (THE) - SEEING | SELF - SELF-ESTEEM | SELF-EXAMINATION - SEMANTICS | SENATE (THE U.S.) - SERIOUSNESS | SEX | SEX SYMBOLS - SHEEP | SHIPS - SILENCE | SILLINESS - SINGING | SINGLE-MINDEDNESS - SKY | SLANDER - SMILES | SMOKING - SOCIETY | SOLDIERS - SOPHISTICATION | SORROW - SOUTH SEA | SPACE - SPEAKING | SPEECH - SPENDTHRIFTS | SPIDERS - SPY | SPORTS & SPORTSMANSHIP | STAGE (THE) - STERILIZATION | STOCK MARKET - STRANGERS | STRENGTH - SUBURBS | SUCCESS | SUFFERING - SUPREME COURT | SURPRISE - SYSTEM (THE) | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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