Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Drucker

The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.

Maureen O'Hara

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Maureen O'Hara

Working with Ty Power was exciting. In those days, he was the biggest romantic swashbuckler in the world. Murderously handsome! But what I loved most about Ty Power was his wicked sense of humor.

Charles Dickens

Say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What's-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is his prophet!

Ron Paul

The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.

Saadi

Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

Roy Harper

What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.

Stephen Schwartz

We can't all come and go by Bubble!

Stephen Schwartz

No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow.

Stephen Sondheim

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

Paul Walker

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Sophocles

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Rio Ferdinand

It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.

Tad Williams

Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific!

Tacitus

The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.

Rupert Grint

Being famous is wicked but its cool to be normal as well.

Steve Martin

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

Kathleen Winsor

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

Orson Scott Card

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

Sallust

By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

Umberto Eco

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

Periander

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

Martin Buber

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.

Plutarch

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

Plutarch

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

Thomas Paine

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Vittorio Alfieri

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Samuel Richardson

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

Gary Bauer

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

Jeff Lindsay

But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

Gregory Maguire

The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.