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Plague Quotes

We are doing well. We’re doing well. We got hit by this China plague. But other than that. I mean, we were rocking. And now we’re going to be rocking again very, very soon.

– Donald Trump

Interview with Sean Hannity, Fox News, as U.S. suffered largest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths of any country in world.

We're doing so well after the plague. It's going away - Donald Trump

We’re doing so well after the plague. It’s going away.

– Donald Trump

With coronavirus on rise in half the states, Trump claimed it was “going away” when there was no evidence for that. Speech to student group in Arizona, June 23, 2020.

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

– Hendrik Poinar

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

– Henry Rollins

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.

– Alan Huffman

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction?

– The Bible

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.

– Diane Watson

We are a plague on the Earth.

– David Attenborough

I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don’t like getting scared.

– Danai Gurira

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

Yeah, I don’t deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

– Max Cannon

I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.

– Charles Hermite

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

– Katharine Lee Bates

AIDS is a plague – numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health – though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

– Larry Kramer

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

– Larry Kramer

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

One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.

– Robert Burton

Please your eye and plague your heart.

– William Cobbett

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

– Yayoi Kusama

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

– William Safire