![He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.](/assets/img/quote-photos/he-who-sups-with-the-devil-had-better-have-a-long-spoon-the-devilry-of-modernity.jpg)
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gone-away ideas long
Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable. Barbara Ehrenreich
gone-away love-of-my-life feelings
Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life. Dave Grohl
gone-away sun meanness
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. Cormac McCarthy
gone-away interesting long
He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company. Peter L. Berger
gone-away gone ritual
The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. Ray Bradbury
gone-away needs stones
The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there. Mick Taylor
gone-away credit unions
Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty. Suze Orman
gone-away gone gray
The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor. Rosie O'Donnell
interesting challenges trying
You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience. Alan Rickman
interesting acting process
What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
interesting enemy brain
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death. Alan Bradley
interesting interviews want
I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part. Al Pacino
interesting waiting groups
I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole. Childe Hassam
interesting challenges important
The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system. David Minge
interesting people perfect
The most interesting people are never perfect. David McCullough
interesting people notes
It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. David Korten
interesting problem
Every problem that is interesting is also soluble. David Deutsch
long vengeance retribution
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. Charles Dickens
long wit long-time
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
long trials hardship
You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope. Charles Stanley
long might serving-god
I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might. Charles Spurgeon
long people giving
I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.
long eternity endless
Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!
long doe christ
He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.
long care doe
Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.
long effort mind
Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen. Alan Watts