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Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. -- Douglas Coupland
History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. -- Richard Lamm
It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America. -- Jeff Goodell
The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters. -- Foster Friess
For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications. -- Ibrahim Babangida
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. -- John A. Logan
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. -- Eisaku Sato
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. -- Angela Davis
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. -- Soren Kierkegaard
French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning. -- Naomi Wolf
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. -- Tony Blair
The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life. -- Max Heindel
To rule by knowledge ravages the country. -- Laozi
To repair the irreparable ravages of time. -- Jean Racine
Work at first rescues us, then ravages us. -- Mason Cooley
Only people who suffer show the ravages of age. -- Howard Fast
Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law. -- Elbert Hubbard
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor. -- George Eliot
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce
The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined. -- William E. Gladstone
A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague. -- Marianne Moore
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak? -- Abigail Adams
Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The United Nations Childrens Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters. -- Foster Friess
There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song. -- Neil Gaiman
Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease. -- Norman Cousins
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity. -- Bryant H. McGill
Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded. -- Paul Bowles
The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated. -- Norman Vincent Peale
As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction. -- Jim Ramstad
If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy. -- J. Michael Straczynski
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others. -- Albert Camus
The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe. -- Neil Gaiman
I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book! -- Sharon Kay Penman
How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. "You're beautiful," I murmured. -- Nicholas Sparks
What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value. -- Walter Benjamin
It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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