Cain Quotes
76 quotes by 60 authors
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Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black…
— Alveda King
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There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so…
— Annie Dillard
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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long…
— Barbara Mertz
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The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears…
— Pope John XXIII
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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you…
— Olive Ann Burns
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People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice…
— Fannie Flagg
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The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee;…
— Annie Dillard
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They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior.…
— Neil Gaiman
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Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and…
— Kelley Armstrong
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You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are…
— Derek Landy
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That was a good day for me," Skulduggery said. "I didn't have to hit anyone. I didn't have to shoot anyone. I just sat around…
— Derek Landy
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You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.
— Derek Landy
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I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far…
— Cassandra Clare
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With the whole Mark of Cain thing, does that mean if I accidentally kick you during the night, I get kicked in the shins seven…
— Cassandra Clare
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pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular…
— John Green
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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I…
— Yann Martel
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life…
— Saint Ambrose
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We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.
— John Cleveland
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