Scary Quotes - Page 13

• Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

  John Irving

  Writing, Letdowns, Seems

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse to deal with him (Bush), the resources at his disposal will be given to others.

  Charles E. Blake

  Mistake, People, Black

  "Some Black Pastors See New Aid Under Bush" by John Leland, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 2001.

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• The Bat that flits at close of Eve
  Has left the Brain that won't believe.
  The Owl that calls upon the Night
  Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.

  William Blake

  Believe, Night, Owl

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 25

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• Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Spiritual, Men, Salvation

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• If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th, it means that my calculations, based on the Bible, must be revised.

  Margaret Davis Bowen

  Mean, Faithful, Midnight

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• All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Book, Teaching, America

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• There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Animal, Men

  William Jennings Bryan, Joe Cain (2009). “William Jennings Bryan's Last Message: A Reprint of His Famous Closing Arguments for the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, Undelivered and Posthumously Published”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Lying, Biblical

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• [The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Media, America

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• There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

  Pat Buchanan

  School, House, Church

  "If Helen Thomas, Then Why Not Pat Buchanan?" by Michael Fauntroy, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2010.

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• There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue, that we are a European country.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Issues, Sitting Down

  "The Bigotry Of Pat Buchanan". www.mediamatters.org. July 29, 2011.

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• Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.

  Pat Buchanan

  Heart, Character, Path

  "The Bigotry Of Pat Buchanan". www.mediamatters.org. July 29, 2011.

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• The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.

  Pat Buchanan

  Real, Shopping, Feminist

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• The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the icons of Islamism despite the fact that they are well-known atheists who live un-Muslim lives and have persecuted unto death the Muslim movements in their countries."

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Country, Religious, Atheist

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• Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors, but to love them, to ask His guidance upon our nation and its leaders in every level of government.

  George W. Bush

  Father, Humility, Humor

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• There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.

  George W. Bush

  Men, Guy, Garbage

  News Conference, May 21, 1999.

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• I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Humor, Thinking

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• I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US military to promote it.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Thinking, Way

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• Making sure every child can read, making sure that we encourage faith-based organizations ... when it comes to helping neighbors in need, making sure that our neighborhoods are safe, making sure that the state of Texas recognizes that people from all walks of life have got a shot at the Texas dream but, most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Children, Organization

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• Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it to you who that somebody is.

  Robert Byrd

  America, Soul, Atheism

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• The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

  David C. Hardesty, Jr.

  Heart, Principles, United States

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• Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Halloween, Dark, Moon

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• But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.

  Ransom Riggs

  Monday, Book, Years

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.18, Quirk Books

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• It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.

  Madeleine Roux

  Monday, Book, Voice

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• Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme.

  Regina Hall

  Reality, Broads, Extremes

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