alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time! — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true. — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. — David Brin Copy Share Image
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Alas, so all things now do hold their peace: Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing: The beasts, the air, the birds… — Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Copy Share Image
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas!… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what?… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image