"I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just……" — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
"I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity."
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22 Quotes by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
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One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
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Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But…
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The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one…
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Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly…
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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
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It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
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The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
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Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery,…
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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became…
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.
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The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.
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There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have…
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The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to go for the…
— Matt Groening
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how…
— Walter Bagehot
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Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
— Terry Pratchett
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I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs…
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Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
— Lord Mountbatten
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The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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