Desires Quote by William Bake

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

— William Blake

Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of…

— Richard Dawkins

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes…

— Thomas Carlyle

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel…

— Frederick Douglass

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes -…

— Charles Spurgeon

The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant…

— Terry Pratchett

Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full…

— David Hume

“...my war on commas. They are a pestilence. They must be stopped.”

— Charles Krauthammer

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

— Wendell Berry

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice…

— George Eliot

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

— Tenzin Palmo

The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been…

— Rush Limbaugh