Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if… — Jenson Button Copy Share Image
Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who… — Boaz Ganor Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5… — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
“That it is at least as difficult to stay a moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm perpetually single. Being alone is not the same as being lonely. I like to do things that glorify being alone. I… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Sure there are some companies at the margins of our society that probably do that and I think we all have the… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch… — Horace Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs,… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
If you're someone who genuinely believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image