False fears are a plague, a modern plague!


Michael Crichton

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We are a plague on the Earth.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
DANIEL BERRIGAN
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal
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A plague o' both your houses!
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I like your boyfriend," Dahra said. "Not many guys volunteer to carry ten gallons of diarrhea and vo...
MICHAEL GRANT
It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'"
"That's great," Lana said.
"Invinc...
MICHAEL GRANT
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
HENRY ROLLINS
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could ha...
LARRY KRAMER
the plague of the 21st century.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Every generation has a plague, so to speak, and that kind of prejudice and discrimination could so e...
RYAN MURPHY
I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come ...
ALBERT CAMUS
The failure to properly address the modern plague caused by HIV is an act of (irresponsibility) that...
DAVID HO
It was the gay plague,
GARY ENGLISH
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - ...
LARRY KRAMER
A plague more monstrous than anything we have experienced could spread with all the irrevocability o...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
Please your eye and plague your heart.
WILLIAM COBBETT
A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.
TERRANCE ROBINSON- ARTIST EDUCATOR SCHOLAR ENTREPRENEUR
I think it's a plague on the profession. I recommend its abolition.
E. STEWART JONES
Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.
RICK PITINO
Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
JAMES BARRETT RESTON
So asking you to take a moonlit walk with me, that would totally not work?"
"What?" Again that ...
MICHAEL GRANT
You're staring," Lana said.
"Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear hav...
MICHAEL GRANT
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Additionally, many widows took over family shops or businesses- and, not uncommonly, ran them better...
JOHN KELLY
On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow ...
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Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
WILLIAM SAFIRE
Republicans seem to avoid (the issue) like the plague.
ANDREW PETTY
'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Bears treat offense, ... as if it's bubonic plague.
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Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.
HENDRIK POINAR
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
HANNAH MORE
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A true plague of a girl. And yet a queen in every sense of the word.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renai...
ERIC WEINER
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
PIERCE BROWN
But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
ALBERT CAMUS
Caine met Diana's disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud.
"Why so gloomy? Doesn't every little gir...
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According to legend, one day a man was wandering in the desert when he met Fear and Plague. They sai...
ANON.
The chances are low of getting it (plague), but if they do get it, it's extremely serious.
HEIDI BOLLES
A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the wa...
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And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the b...
BIBLE
Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murd...
GILBERT MURRAY
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
THOMAS FULLER
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDING
One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The na...
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We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life...
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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so al...
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I think you were going to stop the Black Plague armed with one guard, one mad scientist, a rubber ma...
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[According to 1348 theorists, poisoning of Christian water by Jews was the cause of Black Death.] JOHN KELLY I have realized that we all have plague, and I have lost my peace. And today I am still trying to fi...
ALBERT CAMUS
I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivat...
CHARLES HERMITE
DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy...
AMBROSE BIERCE
Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.
ELIZABETH ESTY
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDING
We but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently ...
WILHELM REICH
He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Ast...
MICHAEL GRANT
No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch."
"Good," Sanjit said.
"Good? Why good...
MICHAEL GRANT
When fire burns the enthusiasm is worth seeing. People, who are enthusiastic and happy, lethargy and...
RIG VEDA
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
ROBERT BURTON
Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
ALEXANDER POPE
And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the ho...
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Earle had friendly written all over him the way that a plague rat had "Hug Me" emblazoned on its fur...
JOHN CONNOLLY
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion...
YANN MARTEL
Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many and be be...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he sh...
BIBLE
If the door bell rings and you go to open the door and the phone rings at the same time and you end ...
APURVA GAGLANI
Real life... Witches: Wiccan practitioners. Werewolves: rare strain of rabies. Zombies: Prions/Plagu...
SOLANGE NICOLE
If we fail to research today,then tomorrow diseases shall plague man to death from infant.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
During the great plague, they thought herbal-infused spirits could alleviate symptoms, even cure. Li...
GARY REGAN
False illusions are fears breathing life on my emotions.
SUSIE L HILL
Maybe one day History will tell us that Ebola never won but rather Government's failed to act, and t...
PAUL B. GILBERT
They'd [Silver Lake residents] rather have the plague come over them than be in the city of Leesburg...
DAVID KNOWLES
Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the
company of friends and fro...
ALBERT CAMUS
Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escape...
IAN CALDWELL
She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.<...
FRANCESCO PETRARCA
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
DANAI GURIRA
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
KATHARINE LEE BATES
is going to plague him not only in his second term but in history — even in Texas.
CAL JILLSON
is going to plague him not only in his second term but in history — even in Texas.
CAL JILLSON
Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred ...
JOSé SARAMAGO
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and so...
MARTIN LUTHER
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your...
MUHAMMAD ALI
To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a ...
A. J. BOWEN
Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness pla...
JAMES S.A. COREY
Avoid negative talk and negative people like plague. Find people who will encourage you, not puke on...
LILY CHATTERJEE
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature spea...
JANE AUSTEN
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
MAX CANNON
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of l...
SIMóN BOLíVAR
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of l...
SIMóN BOLíVAR

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Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western ...
MICHAEL NOVAK
I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL
Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and ...
MICHAEL ANTI
One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ...
MICHAEL FROME
A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
MICHAEL BOLTON
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ...
MICHAEL BOLTON
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE
As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River&#...
MICHAEL KORYTA
The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM
I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it...
MICHAEL GRAVES
With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS
Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
MICHAEL STIPE
I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER
To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf...
MICHAEL DELONG
Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo...
MICHAEL ARRINGTON
You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth...
MICHAEL POLLAN
A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
MICHAEL FROME
I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN
For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha...
MICHAEL KORDA
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut...
MICHAEL MUSTO
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
MICHAEL WICKETT
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER
You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO
I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG
The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA
Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split...
MICHAEL MEADE
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA
We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN
When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN
You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER
As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER
Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari...
MICHAEL DIRDA
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ...
MICHAEL BEHE
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON
In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm...
MICHAEL MCCAUL