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There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is… — Winston Churchill
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. — Robert Breault
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our… — Thomas a Kempis
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience. — Euripides
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And… — Euripides
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. — Sophocles
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for… — Charles Baudelaire
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee! — Teresa of Avila
Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned… — Louis Sullivan
Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no… — Shantideva
Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very… — Tony Levin
If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most… — Tom Lehrer
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent… — Logan Pearsall Smith
Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included. — Pola Negri
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close! — Omar Khayyam
Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I… — Judy Collins
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness… — Aubrey Beardsley
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place… — Algernon Blackwood
Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven.… — R C Sproul
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many. — Caroline Knapp
Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Papers should include more side remarks, open questions, and such. Very often, these are more interesting than the theorems actually proved. Alas, most people are… — Jean-Pierre Serre

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