Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something like tolerance and contort it into a new form of intolerance and conformity. The way humanity can justify any kind of evil.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?” – Abigail “I can roll my tongue.” – Sundown “I’m serious, Jess.” – Abigail “So am I. Not everyone can do it. It’s a genetic thing, you know.” – Sundown

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.

Terry Pratchett

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.

Nick Clooney

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

N. T. Wright

The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.

Morris Raphael Cohen

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

John Winthrop

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.

John Woo

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

John Wycliffe

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

John Ruskin

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Philip Sidney

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

Philip James Bailey

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Philip James Bailey

Evil then results from imperfection.

Philip James Bailey

Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.

Penn Jillette

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

Paulo Coelho

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

Meat Loaf

Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.

Max Muller

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

Max Muller

The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

Max Lucado

God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

Matthew Scully

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

Maurice Sendak

You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

And the recompense of evil is punishment like it, but whoever forgives and amends, he shall have his reward from Allah; surely He does not love the unjust.

Donald Knuth

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships.

People thought we were evil or satanic rockers.

Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.

There's a windfall ... But that's not evil.

Americans are not the only victims. The evil hand of terrorists has hit the human race. We are all victims.