Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages… Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Alas, day, you brought light, You trailed splendour You showed us god: I salute you, most precious one, But I go to… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success.… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds'… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is,… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but… — Alan Judd Copy Share Image
A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
