Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also… — Robert L. Park Copy Share Image
Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas!… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
My interest in food really began with a months cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Papers should include more side remarks, open questions, and such. Very often, these are more interesting than the theorems actually proved. Alas,… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I shall be glad to see thee back, daughter, for I miss thee dreadfully. I wish I did not! I was taking… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Our natural reason looks at marriage and turns up its nose and says, Alas! Must I rock the baby? wash its diapers?… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Oh, popular applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? The wisest and the best feel urgent need… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
