Top 100 The Plague Quotes
#1. 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.
Klaus Kinski
#2. The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.
Eric Hoffer
#3. In some circles, admitting you love Top 40 radio is tantamount to bragging you gave your grandmother the clap, in church, in the front row at your aunt's funeral, but those are the circles I avoid like the plague or, for that matter, the clap.
Rob Sheffield
#4. In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did that happen? I've never read when flesh dissolved; it can now, because of necrotizing fasciitis, or the neutron bomb, but not in 70AD.
Jack Van Impe
#5. If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
Aaron Patzer
#7. The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our borders. Act fast!
Donald Trump
#8. To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing.
Emil Cioran
#9. Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
St. Jerome
#10. It was plague. We've had the plague here.' You'd almost think they expected to be given medals for it. But what does that mean
'plague'? Just life, no more than that.
Albert Camus
#11. Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.
Colson Whitehead
#12. Our parents resorted to the lash the way flagellants in the plague years resorted to the scourge.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#13. 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.
Camille Claudel
#14. When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.
Howard Zinn
#15. Physic himself must fade.
All things to end are made;
The plague full swift goes by.
I am sick, I must die
P.98
Ally Condie
#17. If today He deigns to bless us With a sense of pardon'd sin, He tomorrow may distress us, Make us feel the plague within, All to make us Sick of self, and fond of Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#18. Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
Albert Camus
#19. You thought perhaps you would drink it away, the plague? Was that the plan?"
"I thought perhaps I'd try to die drunk."
"Such ambition. And this from a dragon-slayer.
Richard K. Morgan
#20. Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.
Rick Pitino
#21. The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
Andre Breton
#22. To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
Eleanora Duse
#23. The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
Maya Angelou
#24. In his mind, the business of existence was about minimizing consequences. The plague had raised the stakes, but he had been in training for this his whole life.
Colson Whitehead
#25. All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.
Lord Chesterfield
#26. We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.
Herb Kohl
#27. They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.
Mulla Sadra
#28. One cannot escape dogmas - those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.
Sigrid Undset
#29. 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.
Edsger Dijkstra
#30. A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.
Romain Rolland
#31. I'm beginning to wish I'd had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague.
Steve Robinson
#32. i am good at holding onto nothing like it's all i have and running away from something like it's the plague. i
K.Y. Robinson
#33. I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.
Rita Mae Brown
#34. Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.
Jennifer Weiner
#35. Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.
Suzy Kassem
#36. That's the girl you complain about driving home with every weekend? That's the girl youwhine endlessly about walking in on you when you're acting the fool? That's the girl you dodge calls from and avoid like the plague? Geez Rule I never knew you were gay.
Jay Crownover
#37. Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
Jeremy Taylor
#38. If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and settle in for a long soak. Teenagers who haven't talked to you since their tenth birthday will bang on the door, demanding your immediate attention.
Teresa Bloomingdale
#39. There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.
Stephenie Meyer
#40. On working with director Werner Herzog: 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.
Klaus Kinski
#41. Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, "Lord, this is Your battle."
Charles R. Swindoll
#42. Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.
Thomas Malthus
#43. I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals
mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.
Winston Churchill
#44. The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.
Richard Conniff
#45. I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing.
Kevin McCloud
#46. The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real
Peter Milligan
#48. Did you see the way she ran out of here? Like I had the plague or something."
"Who? The witch?"
"Aye."
"And this bothers you because ... "
"Well ... it's rude."
"Uh huh."
Brastias growled at his second in command. "Shut up.
G.A. Aiken
#50. With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.
Stephen Graham Jones
#51. Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries - "
"So has the plague.
Karen Chance
#52. That's the way to get the chicks for free. And getting the chicks for free is the only true pursuit for a grown-up male. Before puberty, of course, it's avoiding them like the plague.
John Ringo
#53. The plague did not lead to Europe's economic collapse. Rather, Europe's currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
Douglas Rushkoff
#54. I'd never been so mesmerized or captivated or drawn to any guy in my life. Heck, I'd been avoiding guys like the plague.
Priya Kanaparti
#55. Poor Humanity, crazed with fear, was fleeing in all directions on hearing the thundering pace of the Plague, War, Hunger and Death.
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
#56. Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.
Thomas Aquinas
#57. There is no man in creation who is not your brother No woman not your sister, no child not your own For all suffer the Plague, righteous and sinful alike And all must band together to withstand the night.
Peter V. Brett
#58. You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.
Mark Strong
#59. It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague.
Heidi Cullinan
#60. Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.
Scott Walker
#61. The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#62. I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
Danai Gurira
#63. The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
Michel De Montaigne
#64. Tell them I have the headache
no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.
Lauren Willig
#65. In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but ... vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody will know how anything works ... the good news is that everybody will be empowered; the bad news is nobody will understand why.
Mark Christensen
#66. The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague.
Gary Bauer
#67. Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
Voltaire
#68. You're going to wake up one day, and you're gonna realize he's moved on. He'll quit trying to win you back. And you'll regret it. And if there's anything The Plague taught me, it's that there isn't time for regret anymore.
Kirby Howell
#69. Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.
Kenneth Rogoff
#70. Indeed, the one thing these prophecies had in common was that, ultimately, all were reassuring. Unfortunately, though, the plague was not.
Albert Camus
#71. Gossiping is the plague of little towns.
George Sand
#72. The plague was not the kind of calamity that inspired mutual help. Its loathsomeness and deadliness did not herd people together in mutual distress, but only prompted their desire to escape each other.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#73. 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.
Norman Douglas
#74. I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#75. The plague of scientific minds is the inability to stop oneself from digging into things you know you shouldn't touch. Some answers ought to be left alone and never discovered by mortals.
S.R. Ford
#76. Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.
Jeremy Collier
#77. For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.
Ihara Saikaku
#78. It is far easier for a woman to lead
a blameless life than it is for a man;
all she has to do is to avoid
sexual intercourse like the plague.
Angela Carter
#80. Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!
Vincent Klyn
#82. Do you think what happened here was an exam: if you come through, you get a diploma and safe conduct into the future, or a sign to paint on the door-lintel that will make the plague pass you by?
J.M. Coetzee
#83. Uncertainty is more contagious than the plague. Cesare,
Sarah Dunant
#84. If you're someone who genuinely believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague ... It's just pointless and deadly.
Joss Whedon
#85. The bricked-up fourteenth-century "doors of the dead" are still visible. These ghosts of doors beside the main entrance were designed, some say, to take out the plague victims - bad luck for them to exit by the main entrance. I notice in the regular doors, people often leave their keys in the lock.
Frances Mayes
#86. Love in the flesh remained elusive. It drew yet frightened him. This was the late eighties, after all, the most terrifying days of the plague. Surrounded everywhere by insolent youth and beauty, Paul looked and lusted but didn't dare touch.
Jonathan Galassi
#87. Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.
St. Jerome
#88. The plague had killed far more females than males. As one of the few women in The New America, especially an educated, civilized woman, I'd always supposed I was ever man's type.
Anna Carey
#90. But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
Albert Camus
#91. Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don't need to be in with him. Dangerous fight.
Carl Froch
#92. Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
Frederick William Robertson
#93. Skousen remembered a world falling apart. Kira remembered a world pulling together to save itself. That was the difference. That was why Skousen and the Senate were too afraid to do what it took to solve this. If it was going to get done, it would have to be the plague babies who did it.
Dan Wells
#94. Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
Max Cannon
#95. You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.
Lenny Bruce
#96. 12And this shall be e the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
Anonymous
#98. I held Star close before I departed. "If I don't come back," I told her, "find a way to give everyone the plague.
Danielle Paige
#99. She's trying to figure out the Plague on her own and not taking what the Rising says for granted.
Ally Condie
