Mockery Quote by Graham McNeill Download Open image ““In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown.”” — Graham McNeill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Impiety Impiety Sown Mockery Mockery Seeds Seeds Impiety
“But I am weary of this place, and sick to death of playing at philanthropy and progress. Of all varieties of mock-life, we have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“So I caution you, beware of those who mock goodness and self-discipline.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“We mock that which we don't understand, and then we get to experience it ourselves.” — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
“Today they are mocking at you; tomorrow they will be mocked at by themselves.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
“God mocks the greatness of man by forging them into the law of occasion, so a person in turn mocks by making the occasion… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Hey, maybe I should make that a condition of being the Mockingjay.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean?” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Swearing invulnerably, I measure mercilessly his shortcomings, and with luxurious scorn, ask who could be ensnared there.” — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“I had reached a level of sophistication at which I could know I was fooling myself and still fool myself.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept… — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
“When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown,… — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
“One should never see a drinking establishment well lit, he thought, it just makes it look even sadder.” — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
“He (the Emperor) once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests.” — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
“I cannot accept that,' said Uriel. 'The destruction of the Emperor's loyal subjects cannot be right.' 'We cannot always do what is right, Uriel.… — Graham Mcneill Copy Share Image
“I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it.” — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
“The dead do not squabble as this land’s rulers do. The dead do not fight one another. The dead have no desires, no petty… — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
“Ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them.” — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
“A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself.” — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
“The Emperor tells us that civilization will only achieve perfection when the last stone of the last church falls upon the last priest.” — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
“A wise man of Old Earth had once claimed that science would destroy mankind, not through its weapons of mass destruction, but through finally… — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery. — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find it so… — Caitlin Crews Copy Share Image
“Mockery is childish, Beatrice,' She says. 'It does not become you'. 'Mockery is childish, Beatric,' I repeat in my best imitation of her voice.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image