The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
We need a plague. It's gotta happen. And don't worry, it's only gonna kill the weak. Seriously. Put on a sweater, take… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
“Every war, every plague is God’s judgment. But every man who rises up to stop the wars and the plagues is God’s… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought,… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
“March 1898 What a strange dream I had last night! I wandered in the warm streets of a port, in the low… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
“It seemed no amount of praying could diminish the plague’s wrath. By the time city officials realized it was the rats that… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
After a moment, Wrath turned to John. "This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague,… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The plague spread and moved on. In the whole world only a few people were able to save themselves: the pure and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Some kings of England could not read or write; some died of illness which would keep us in bed only for a… — P.J. Sidey Copy Share Image
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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