Wicked Quotes - Page 19

• Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

  Plato

  Evil, Turns, Company

  Plato (2016). “Laws”, p.424, Xist Publishing

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• I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and dine with you and all the gods in old Rome's Pantheon. It is a strange feeling--no hopefulness is in it, no despair. Content--that is it; and irresponsibility; but without licentious inclination.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Rome, Feelings

  Herman Melville (2001). “Tales, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

  Mason Cooley

  Guilt, Thrill, Innocence

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• I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Art, Museums, Generosity

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• And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
  The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
  and when she arrived there were
  red-hot iron shoes,
  in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
  clamped upon her feet.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Queens, Iron

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
  To mourn, and murmur and repine,
  To see the wicked placed on high,
  In pride and robes of honor shine.
  But oh, their end, their dreadful end,
  Thy sanctuary taught me so,
  On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,
  And fiery billows roll below.

  Isaac Watts

  Pride, Power, Rocks

  Thomas Hastings, Isaac Watts, William Patton (1836). “The Christian Psalmist: Or, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, with Copious Selections from Other Sources”, p.127

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• Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

  Plato

  Hate, Character, Men

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• Gun producer and the killer is the same thing! Be ethical, stop producing guns! Be human, for God's sake, for there shall never be peace of mind for the wicked!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Gun, Mind

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• I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.

  Lucy Punch

  Character, Ugly, Actresses

  "Talented British actress Lucy Punch packs a wallop". Interview with Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Doubt that there could ever be...a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.

  Immortal Technique

  Children, Doubt, Technique

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• A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

  James A. Baldwin

  Civilization, People, Spineless

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• What drives me mad in evangelical circles, including some young Reformed circles, is that there is often a sit-on-the-couch-and-wait-for-God-to-do-something mentality that is unbiblical and wicked. It's probably been true of every generation, but I can see it most clearly in the younger crowd. There seems to be so little war when it comes to sin.

  Matt Chandler

  War, Circles, Mad

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"

  Stephen King

  Morning, Jobs, Fun

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• Without the lord to shield you and guide you, you gonna fade away. Jah is your shield and your guide. The wicked man gotta turn aside. No need to fear no wicked guide. Rastafari protect your life!

  Sizzla

  Men, Needs, Shields

  Source: www.thepier.org

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• Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

  Mario Bunge

  Stupid, Criticism, Rational

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Forever, Cuban, Young

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

  Chika Anadu

  Inspire, Example, Film

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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• A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Weed, Noble

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.137, Advaita Ashrama

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• Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

  Voltaire

  Men, Evil, Sick

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4677, Delphi Classics

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• The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

  Richard Cecil

  Children, Home, Mind

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.137

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• A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Men, Hands

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Divinity”, Lulu.com

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• On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit.

  John Wesley

  Pain, Prayer, Light

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• Thus it is in hell; they would die, but they cannot. The wicked shall be always dying but never dead; the smoke of the furnacedascends for ever and ever. Oh! who can endure thus to be ever upon the rack? This word "ever" breaks the heart. Wicked men do now think the Sabbaths long, and think a prayer long; but oh! how long will it be to lie in hell for ever and ever?

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Prayer, Lying

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• Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

  Thomas Watson

  Men, Damn You, Laughing

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Great Gain of Godliness”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

  Thomas Watson

  Ignorance, Men, Christianity

  Thomas Watson (1829). “Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects: Being the Select Works of Thomas Watson”, p.347

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