Demon Quotes - Page 18

• We are our own gods and our own demons.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

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• The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies.

  James Berardinelli

  Stars, Struggle, Angel

  "Angels & Demons (United States, 2009)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2009.

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• What demon is our god? What name subsumes
  That act external to our sleeping selves?
  Not pleasure - it is much too broad and narrow, -
  Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride,
  And not in prowess, but pride undefined,
  Autonomous in its unthought demands,
  A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.

  J. V. Cunningham

  Sex, Sleep, Pride

  "In a Few Days Now When Two Memories Meet (1964)". "Poems Of J.V. Cunningham". Book edited by Timothy Steele, 1997.

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• They [the New World Order] want to reduce the population [to 500 million] and their target date is May 5th of 2000. [.....] The demons who call themselves spirit guides have told them. "You know, you have to reduce the population by May 5th." Because May 5th is Karl Marx's birthday, you know, enter the Age of Aquarius. [.....] I suspect they may use Y2K as an excuse to create some little problems here, we shall have to wait and see.

  Kent Hovind

  Order, Aquarius, Waiting

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• He doesn't have demons. He's not Batman, he doesn't struggle with inner turmoil. The nature of this character is that he puts himself last and helps the common good. So he could easily slip into a world of boredom, The blessing and curse of Captain America is that he doesn't have that fancy an ability. He doesn't live in another world, or turn green. He doesn't have bells and whistles, he doesn't shoot missiles. He punches and kicks.

  Chris Evans

  Struggle, Character, Blessing

  "Chris Evans Taking a Break from Acting Once Marvel Contract Expires" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 3, 2014.

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• Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

  David Mallet

  Fear, Support, Soul

  David Mallet (1759). “Eurydice, a tragedy. Mustapha, a tragedy”, p.192

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• The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . . . He makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and . . . he instills in the heart of the monk a hatred for the place, a hatred for his very life itself.

  Kathleen Norris

  Moving, Heart, Hatred

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• We all have our demons to deal with, Little Pigeon. It's when we cherish them - cradle them to our breasts and feed them, day after day-that's when they curdle our souls.

  Susan Fletcher

  Soul, Littles, Pigeons

  Susan Fletcher (1999). “Shadow spinner”

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• Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.

  Jim Carroll

  Long, Brain, Purpose

  Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.176, Penguin

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• Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.

  Martha Beck

  Giving, Receiving, Judgment

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• You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.

  Brian McDermott

  Doe, Week, Coaches

  "Brian McDermott has retained his beliefs despite dark times at Leeds" by Andy Wilson, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

  Lord Byron

  Blight, Exile, Pursue

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.57

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• I don't absolve my father completely of his responsibility for what he did to us I feel compassion, maybe. He had his demons. But I still can't understand how a man can walk away from children. And leave them to starve, as we nearly did, if it wasn't for my mother going out and begging.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better.

  Eva Mendes

  Determination, People, Get Better

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness.

  John G. Lake

  Christian, Heart, Soul

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• A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of these spirits or other types of entities. And because we've denied them, we may have opened the gates for them to manipulate us in a lot of ways.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Culture, May, Neurosis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

  Harold Bloom

  Poet, Threshold, Guarded

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• The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.

  T.C. Boyle

  World, Maps, Way

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• I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know. We know. And so we don't need to look at it again. And yet everybody is still upset. Everybody is still being driven by their outrageous imagination to the point of killing people because they feel that a black man in front of them is a demon, or the Incredible Hulk.

  Claudia Rankine

  Taken, Men, Thinking

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• I'm a half-demon princess. Sure. What's so hard to grasp about that?

  Michelle Rowen

  Princess, Half, Hard

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• I'm also a sex demon. I didn't go blind when I took a mate

  Larissa Ione

  Sex, Blind, Mates

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• That thing in you that you think is a demon is actually a bodyguard that's run amok

  Duncan Trussell

  Running, Thinking, Bodyguard

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• When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic possession, and it was believed that demons inhabiting a madman could be driven out by inflicting pain upon him, and so making them uncomfortable. In pursuit of this opinion, lunatics were treated for years on end with systematic and conscientious brutality.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Years, Insanity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.107, Routledge

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• [n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Believe, Inspiration

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• You must learn to hush the demons that whisper, 'No one wants to read this. This has already been said. Your voice doesn't matter.' In the rare moments when the voices finally hush, you might hear the angels singing.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Angel, Voice, Singing

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