Chairs Quote by Terry Pratchett

Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“[W]hat is ugly and evil is apt to change and grow milder with time.”

— Edith Hamilton Mythology

It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil.…

— Allen Ginsberg

Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of…

— Cormac McCarthy

“All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief…

— Cormac McCarthy

“But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came. My lyre is turned to mourning, and my…

— Laura Wiess

“No evil ever came from a woman’s womb that wasn’t placed there first by a man.’... Tantie Neptune, Lucifer's Key by Charles A. Cornell,…

— Charles A. Cornell

“He saw that women, the tenderest and most fragile of all God’s creatures, were the oftenest superior to sorrow, adversity, and distress; and he…

— Charles Dickens

I am from the city of evil, came from the bottom. Standing on top of what was supposed to be my coffin, whats up?

— Machine Gun Kelly

“A dog couldn’t be evil. Dogs were eager to please their masters, and that could be turned either way. Evil came from the black…

— S.M. Reine

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun