Top 20 Blights Quotes
#1. Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.
Theresa May
#2. I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Isak Dinesen
#3. Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it
George Bernard Shaw
#4. Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#5. Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
Michael Gove
#6. These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.
James P. Cannon
#8. It is a cumulative tragedy, the same tragedy that blights the entire country. With so many dead bodies, how do you begin to rebuild? How do you trust enough to hope? And how do you hold on to life when it no longer seems worth living?
Vanessa Woods
#9. There is no review process, Doc. This isn't a government thing. Hell, it's not even a business. It's just us monkeys flying fast and tryin' t keep our butts out of the engine plume.
James S.A. Corey
#10. The basic idea is simple: All is One. Different religions just find different ways of expressing this universal truth.
Rudy Rucker
#11. Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.
Arlen Specter
#12. Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you're making up. You shouldn't let that bother you.
Emma Hooper
#14. Too much respect for other people's wisdom will make you depreciate your own.
Robert Greene
#17. I had come there not only to look at, but also to number myself sincerely and wholeheartedly with, the mob. As for my secret moral views, I had no room for them amongst my actual, practical opinions.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#18. First Pallas and now you," the gray-haired man said, shaking his head at Nick. "It's like I'm running a goddamn dating service around here.
Julie James
#19. Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
Russell Baker