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To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of… — Arthur Honegger
Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people. — Steven M. Greer
'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot. — Unknown Author
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks. — Ovid
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the… — Anthony of Padua
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little… — Nathaniel Branden
Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by. — Unknown Author
Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should… — Unknown Author
What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true. — Hermann Ebbinghaus
O my Blessed God! let me climb up near to Him, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle, and strech after Him, and for… — David Brainerd
Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you… — William Shakespeare
Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting… — John Ruskin
Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows… — William Wordsworth
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as… — Adam Weishaupt
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few. — William Wordsworth
Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations. — Unknown Author
No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress'… — Andrew Marvell
But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one. — Fred Reinfeld
Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is… — Charles Dickens
We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority… — Jared Diamond
We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by… — Ernest Lawrence
A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself. — John Szarkowski
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently… — A.C. Grayling
Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had… — F B Meyer

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