On average, every year, thirty-five people in the United…

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

— Eleanora Duse

“Within ten days, thirty million people would die from the plague. Three weeks from now, two hundred million human beings would die per day.”

— Bobby Akart

It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand or three…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights…

— Bette Midler

The population at large is neither 'ordinary' or 'normal'. They seem to be bound together by a collective ignorance of themselves and what they…

— Dennis Nilsen

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in…

— George Washington

Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95…

— Margaret Atwood

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

— William Safire

“I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across many of…

— albert camus

Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who…

— Ursula Goodenough

In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery…

— George Bernard Shaw

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

— Ezra Taft Benson

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 learned it…

— Albert Camus

The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

— Peter Breggin