“Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?” — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real — Peter Milligan Copy Share Image
Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us… — Peter Stone 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
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to… — Angela Carter 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
Drag queens are extremely innovative and, I mean, we will persist through plague, famine, war or pandemic. We will prevail. — Alaska Copy Share Image
In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“lethal condition known as “dust pneumonia” or the “brown plague” that was similar to the black lung that developed in coal miners.… — Linda Marsa Copy Share Image
“The good, the bad, the virgin, and the harlot: no one is spared, all go rose-spattered with plague lesions. I see no… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
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
Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the… — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion,… — Helen and Scott Nearing Copy Share Image
And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and… — Harry J. Holzer Copy Share Image
Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present,… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
“Plagues were nothing new to Europe…. They were recorded as far back as 1347, and continued on until 1750. In 1649, a… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba 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
We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch… — Camus, Albert Copy Share Image
“For the plague-stricken their peace of mind is more important than a human life. Decent folks must be allowed to sleep easy… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague. — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
