William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, haply I think on thee, and then my state, like to the lark at break of day arising from sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate. For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, that then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Aldous Huxley
- Brave New World
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
Los Angeles Times
- Frenzied house hunters driven by desperation
People are desperate, local agents said. Their homes are in ashes, and they are looking for stability, somewhere for their family to go that's not a shelter, a friend's house or a hotel room. Some landlords are now sharply raising rent, even beyond what temporary price gouging protections allow. And some would-be renters are offering a year's rent upfront in cash and engaging in bidding wars.
