I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not? — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The locust has no king Just noise and hard language They talk me over” — David Eugene Edwards Copy Share Image
“Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample on the dead to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Okay, boys.” Pestilence's grating voice rang out. “Kill the human and the mutt, and let's get this Apocalypse started! — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic… — William H. Stewart Copy Share Image
Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image