Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Joel

They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.

David Ricardo

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

David Hume

If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.

David Brainerd

God designs that those whom He sanctifies...shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how great the deliverance is, which God has wrought for them.

August Strindberg

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

Bobby Jindal

Weakness actually is a provocative to evil. You don't beat evil with weakness. You don't beat evil with concessions. You don't beat radical Islam by giving them more territory, giving them more money. You beat evil by strength.

Benjamin Franklin

If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

Benjamin Franklin

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

Ben Affleck

You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

Arthur Bryant

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

Baltasar Gracian

Evil report carries further than any applause.

Baltasar Gracian

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words..

Dean Koontz

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

Dean Koontz

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

Dean Koontz

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

Daniel H. Wilson

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Daniel Handler

Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.

Craig Ferguson

Evil does not question itself. Only Hope questions itself.

Craig Ferguson

I'm always a bit shy around evil people...

Craig Ferguson

That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

Arthur Guiterman

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

The only possibility of reform in Los Angeles, which is a 'see no, hear no evil' city, is if there is the glaring eye of outside investigators from Sacramento and from Washington D.C.,

Ian McDiarmid

Yes I was, and again, I didn't know how evil he was going to be - I knew he was going to be pretty evil - until I got the script.

Charles Bukowski

I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

Jane Campion

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

Jane Goodall

Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.