A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
“The world was a sick animal, a sort of huge cancerous tumour, a thing of bubbling liquids, whitish patches, dribbling pus, fantastic… — Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film… — Alex Winter Copy Share Image
The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep… — David Frum Copy Share Image
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics… — George Vecsey Copy Share Image
After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I had scarlet fever. I wasn't supposed to have survived it. When I got out of bed,… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
Were I as quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine! One groan of mine would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering.… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
