“Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“The plague had killed far more females than males. As one of the few women in The New America, especially an educated,… — Anna Carey Copy Share Image
Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
What can you do? [Bernie] Sanders, as a Jewish man: What could Pharaoh do to extend his time, and stop the plagues… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in… — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow of a tree, their peace untroubled… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous.… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What are you doing to me, you plague of a girl?” he whispered. “If I’m a plague, then you should keep your… — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Genocide is the foulest plague known to the world, and I offer you my apologies , that you have found yourself alone… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The mourning of a loved one never ends with a funeral. It comes back every so often, like a stage performer eager… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has said numerous times in this campaign, "If Congress doesn't act to end the plague of gun violence in America,"… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image