Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you.

Charles Caleb Colton

A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

Jane Austen

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

Alan Rickman

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

Edmund Burke

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Antisthenes

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

Daniel Handler

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

Charles Portis

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

Ezra Taft Benson

Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

Howard Cosell

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

Joseph Joubert

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

Garet Garrett

The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

Jakob Bohme

You are at enmity with yourself.

John Gardner

i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.

John Hancock

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

Livy

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

Jane Austen

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

John Maynard

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Source Unknown

On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

Wally Snyder

I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the kind of things that they ought to have.

Edward Kennedy

We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

Charles Spurgeon

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Charles Spurgeon

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

John Gibson

We've got about 300 members. We ought to have about 3,000.