Deadly Quotes
534 Deadly quotes by 413 unique authors
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Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long. Starving is…
— Demi Lovato
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We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was…
— Peter Kreeft
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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.
— John Stott
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The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This…
— Richard Armitage
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We know Saddam Hussein possesses chemical weapons - he has for nearly 20 years as we know only so well from his use of them…
— Sandy Berger
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Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of evidence has begun…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental…
— Max Lerner
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This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle…
— John Quincy Adams
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Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq's enemies…
— John D. Rockefeller
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I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of…
— John Fowles
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Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them," explained Revel. "It awakens only…
— Jean Francois Revel
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Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of…
— Peter Orner
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Need to sharpen my blade. Make it shiny, gleamy, and oh, so... deadly.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.
— Terry Goodkind
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The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best…
— L. J. Smith
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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the…
— Mishka
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Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.
— James Stewart
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Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change…
— Amy Goodman
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.
— Arundhati Roy
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Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an…
— William Barrett
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Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.
— Peter Drucker
Who Wrote These Deadly Quotes
413 authors contributed a total of 534 Deadly Quotes, led by these top contributors: