(60 quotes found)
“And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”
Daniel Defoe
“A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal”
Daniel Berrigan
“Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.”
William Safire
“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.”
Wilhelm Reich
“A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares”
Igor Stravinsky
“Of all the plagues a lover bears,Sure rivals are the worst!”
William Walsh
“the plague of the 21st century.”
Vladimir Putin
“A plague more monstrous than anything we have experienced could spread with all the irrevocability of ink on tissue paper. Ancient scourges would quickly become modern nightmares.”
William S. Cohen
“Tina's just been plagued by foul trouble lately. She took the ball to the hole in the second half and that was good to see, but it's been frustrating for her.”
Carmen Dolfo
“We are left with a picture of a White House that was plagued by the fog of war. The committee is likely to find a disturbing inability by the White House to de-conflict and analyze information ? and that had consequences.”
David Marin
