Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. – Rick Reilly, “Master Strokes,” Sports Illustrated
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development. – Gro Harlem Brundtland
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. – Seamus Heaney
