Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguiled by one. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image
We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything… — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless… — Algernon Charles Swinburne 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
There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the… — Vincent Klyn Copy Share Image
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
