“He who wishes to gain understanding, must first depart from devilish ways.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality.” — Felix O. Hartmann Copy Share Image
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is. — Amanda Plummer Copy Share Image
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish. — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime. — James Reston, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer,… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer,… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“Say "no" to corruption; it does not fit you! Say "no" to bad leadership; you don't fit there. Say "no" to immorality;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a… — Sonya Levien Copy Share Image
But that is not because these principles are traditional; it is because they are biblical. There is certainly an arrogant, hide-bound type… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If you are a reporter trying to find out what the hell's going on in government now, you have a devilish time.… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
He was still dazed, and though she hated to admit it, he was actually rather attractive. If a girl happened to like… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my… — Harry Gordon Selfridge Copy Share Image
Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There was a pony named Barbapoppa that I received at the age of five, and he was very mischievous and maybe even… — Chantal Sutherland Copy Share Image
Yes we are devilish; that is true we cackle. Yes we are dark like the soil and wild like the animals. And… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
