Quotes having the keyword Plague
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
by Camille Claudel (Sculptor, French , born in 1864) keywords: agreed, am, art, benevolent, cholera, emperor, even, fact, flee, generous, interested, men, myself, plague, plasters, sahara, show , would I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
by Russell Crowe (Actor, Australian , born in 1964) keywords: africa, angeles, attack, australia, bubonic, continent, disappeared, england, los, martian, move, new, plague, some, swallowed, tidal, up, wave, were , zealand The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
by Edsger Dijkstra (Scientist, Dutch , born in 1930) keywords: approaches, avoids, aware, clever, competent, full, fully, his, humility, limited, own, plague, programmer, size, skull, task, therefore , tricks Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
by Norman Douglas (Writer, British , born in 1868) keywords: avoid, body, causes, everything, find, first, give, happiness, indispensable, miraculous, nothing, plague, recipe, reverence, shall, useful , wonderful Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
by Uri Geller (Entertainer, Israeli , born in 1946) keywords: aids, better, cancer, disarm, diseases, earth, little, live, make, meaning, missiles, nuclear, our, place, plague, planet, pollution, stop , wars I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
by Thom Gunn (Poet, British , born in 1929) keywords: age, around, assumed, cut, dying, early, friends, gradually, growing, had, here, off, old, plague, them, very , would If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
by Wilhelm Keitel (Celebrity, German , born in 1882) keywords: able, against, balkans, bands, both, brutality, disposal, east, foreseeable, fought, future, greatest, master, our, plague, strength, sufficient, then, war , will I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever.
by Klaus Kinski (Actor, German , born in 1926) keywords: any, breaks, catch, ever, every, fight, him, hit, more, plague, sequence, shoot, than, wish, without, would , yell War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
by Martin Luther (Leader, German , born in 1483) keywords: afflict, any, destroys, families, greatest, humanity, plague, preferable, religion, scourge, states , war As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
by Larry Niven (Writer, American , born in 1938) keywords: after, aids, along, childhood, come, disease, every, generation, get, human, kill, next, off, often, plague, plagues, population, quarter, thirds , two 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.
by Wilhelm Reich (Psychologist, Austrian , born in 1897) topics: Government keywords: bubonic, character, extraordinarily, fact, ideologies, necessary, plague, political, powerful, proof, realities, reality, regarded, social, tangible, their, vitally , would 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.
by Igor Stravinsky (Composer, Russian , born in 1882) keywords: am, animal, animals, anymore, been, cross, dare, die, eminence, family, go, hardly, idiot, known, member, plague, royal, stared, stares, street, wherever, without , zoo We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.
by Diane Watson (Politician, American , born in 1933) keywords: cannot, children, continue, disparity, especially, ignore, impoverished, inner-city, many, minority, our, plague, predominantly, resources, school, serving, systems , those
