Wicked Quotes - Page 8

• So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

  Steve Martin

  Details, Standing Out, Fitting

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Though the world is becoming more wicked, the youth of Christ's Church can become more righteous if they understand who they are, understand the blessings available, and understand the promises God has made to those who are righteous, who believe, who endure.

  David B. Haight

  Believe, Blessing, Promise

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• You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

  Gunter Grass

  Genius, Vain, Should

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• Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .

  Terri Windling

  Real, Thinking, Fire

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• Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

  James McHenry

  Strong, Men, Quiet

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• Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Children, Long, Once Upon A Time

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov (Book Two, Chapter "Flight"), 1967.

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• I knew what Saint Dane was sensing. I knew why he was confused. he thought I was done. He thought we were done. He was wrong, and that's what he was sensing. He felt our presence. I figured I might as well confirm things for him. "Pendragon, don't--," Patrick warned. I stepped out fron behind the pillar into the light. "Man, that suit is just wicked cool!" I called out.

  D. J. MacHale

  Confused, Men, Light

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wicked Person, Looks, Mets

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.26, Xist Publishing

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• The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or spells can lead to completely unforseen behavior: e.g., see the story, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Neither study is easy: "...her [Galinda's] early appetite for sorcery had waned once she'd heard what a grind it was to learn spells and, worse, to understand them." from the book "Wicked" by G. Maguire.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Mistake, Book, Learning

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• You’re too visible, Albert,” Hadrian explained. “Can’t afford to have our favorite noble hauled to some dungeon where they cut off your eyelids or pull off your fingernails until you tell them what we’re up to.” “But if they torture me, and I don’t know the plan, how will I save myself?” “I’m sure they’ll believe you after the fourth nail or so,” Royce said with a wicked grin.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Believe, Cutting, Hadrian

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.25, Ridan Publishing

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• And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  People, Upset, Closest

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2011). “Winter Solstice”, p.466, Macmillan

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• Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.

  Franny Billingsley

  Girl, Mother, Baby

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.160, A&C Black

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• For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste. - Carter Kane

  Rick Riordan

  Heart, Cows, Taste

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• He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary's veins run a little faster. "You want to go on a date?" Caught off guard, she stammered. "A wh-what?" "A date," Jace repeated. "Often 'a boring thing you have to memorize in history class,' but in this case, 'an offering of an evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly." "Really?" Clary was not sure what to make of this. "Blisteringly white-hot?" "It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Offering, Blood

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Lying, Philosophy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.98, 谷月社

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• Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays. I have invented a mask that makes me look like anybody. People will not even turn round in the streets. You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. If you loved me I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased.

  Gaston Leroux

  Sunday, People, Wife

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• Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.

  George R. R. Martin

  Would Be, Kind, Boring

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.616, Bantam

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• Minho was the first one to speak since the food had come. “Maybe we should just give in to those shuckfaces. Do what they want. One day we’ll all sit around, fat and happy.” Thomas knew he didn’t mean a word of it. “Yeah, maybe you can find a nice pretty girl who works here, settle down, get married and have kids. Just in time for the world to end in a sea of lunatics.” Minho kept at it. “WICKED’s going to figure out this blueprint business and we’ll all live happily ever after.

  James Dashner

  Girl, Nice, Kids

  James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure”, p.37, Chicken House

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• Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Confused, Army, Men

  "The Age of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 8), 2002.

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• But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

  Ray Bradbury

  Hero, Men, Knowing

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• Daphne felt something wild and wicked take hold. “Let’s walk in the garden,” she said softly. “We can’t.” “We must.” “We can’t.

  Julia Quinn

  Garden, Said, Walks

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• She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

  Alasdair Gray

  People, Said, Needed Love

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• Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

  Jack Gantos

  Lying, Soul, Forget

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• You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you." He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. "Why? I'm all those things and more." I shook my head. Ian was more proud of his depravity than anyone I'd met, but if he helped me pull Bones out from under four bespelled vampires and one demonically-enchanced vamp, I'd shower him with prostitutes and porn while swearing he was an angel.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Angel, Vampire, Four

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• If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

  Lewis Tappan

  People, Wish, March

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