Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them,… — E. M. Forster 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
There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of… — James O'Donnell Bennett 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
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time! — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I… — Pierre Bourgault 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
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
Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,… — Thomas D Copy Share Image
I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world.… — Joseph A. Schumpeter 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
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
O admirable Mother of God! How many sins have I committed for which thou hast obtained pardon for me, and how many… — John Eudes Copy Share Image
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close! — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
