The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as… — Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Copy Share Image
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough,… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for… — Bayazid Bastami Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition. — George Barrell Cheever Copy Share Image
The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
