Plagues Quotes
55 quotes by 50 authors
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Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.
— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
— George Canning
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The population at large is neither 'ordinary' or 'normal'. They seem to be bound together by a collective ignorance of themselves and what they are.…
— Dennis Nilsen
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Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a…
— Joel Achenbach
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only…
— Jonathan Swift
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that…
— Paul Berg
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The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by the fierce heat,…
— John the Apostle
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I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.
— Kristen Stewart
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
— Voltaire
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Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but…
— Neil Gaiman
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And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and…
— T.A. Barron
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Even if he doesn’t eat, he knows the cookies. I’ll bet his mother stuffed him full as a kid. (Tory) Not really. My mom wasn’t…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and…
— Voltaire
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there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover,…
— Adolf Hitler
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I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of…
— William Blake
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It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given…
— Martin Amis
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We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse…
— Rick Riordan
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Did they launch the last space shuttle yet?†– Sundown “I don’t follow.†– Ren “I’m just thinking maybe we should evacuate the whole planet.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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