Devil Quotes - Page 12

• If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.

  Ray Bradbury

  Weed, Jobs, Crazy

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• Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

  Norman Mailer

  Hero, Men, Vision

  Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”

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• Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

  Taylor Hackford

  Looks, Incredibles, Performances

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Artist

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• Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

  Benny Hinn

  Christian, Want, Poverty

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• This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

  Taylor Hackford

  Winning, Men, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Humorous, Extremes

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “Lectures Upon Shakspeare”, p.279, Classic Books Company

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• If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

  James Russell Lowell

  Father, Shapes, Hateful

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.229

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• As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

  William Peter Blatty

  Wells, Stills

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• I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Success, Thinking, People

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• The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Cat, Angel

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• Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

  Lionel Blue

  People, Good Christian, Christianity

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• This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

  George Whitefield

  Feelings, Mind, Speak

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.226

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• They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Angel

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• I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

  Maria Monk

  Biting, Sin, Hell

  Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.42, New York : Howe & Bates

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• Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Serving God, Ifs

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 108

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• Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

  Anne Rice

  Ghouls, Vampire, My Favorite

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• The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Science, Divergent, May

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• Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.

  Eric Massa

  Mother, Children, Son

  "The Democrat Party is a Gulag". "The Rush Limbaugh show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. Mar 8, 2010.

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• The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

  William Gurnall

  Fall, Prison, Satan

  William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.1

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• My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

  Dante Hall

  Team, Eye, College

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• The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

  Francois Rabelais

  Evil, Sick, Would Be

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

  Tom Cochrane

  Tasmanian Devils

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• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Adversity, Years, Weather

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• It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

  George Santayana

  Revenge, Passion, Thinking

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.150, MIT Press

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