#alas

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#archbishop #canterbury #i #illusion #left

We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that. ↗

— John W. Snow

#alaska #available #dependent #east #energy

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #deceiver #flows #gratitude #how

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#all day #been #being #day #distinction

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#big #go #me #people #places

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. ↗

— Jane Grey

#felt #find #folk #good #i

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#am #friendless #hopeless #i #i am

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#alaska #get #isolated #lived #only

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#because #government #humans #nature #need

All my grandfather ever wanted to do was wake up at dawn and watch my grandmother kneel and pray in a village hidden between Jaffa and Haifa my mother was born under an olive tree on a soil they say is no longer mine but I will cross their barriers, their check points their damn apartheid walls and return to my homeland I am an Arab woman of color and we come in all shades of anger ↗

— Rafeef Ziadah

#anger