Demon Quotes - Page 35

• I prefer to channel my problems and inner demons through a character. Another persona. That protects me and my family. I can get my frustrations out that way.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Character, Frustration, Inner Demons

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue.

  Charles Montgomery

  Sweet, Opportunity, Wish

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• In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the tangled web of our fate was inescapable. Why did these women love each other to the point of madness? Why did they loathe one another so vehemently, and why did sworn enemies feel such horror and fascination for one another? Why should furious hate become obsession, then intoxication and the very reason to live?Because love and hate were the two heads of the demon.

  Shan Sa

  Wall, Hate, Fate

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• Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Pain, Lying, People

  Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Space Between”, p.245, Penguin

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• I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

  Christopher Lee

  Fairy Stories, Everyday, Gods And Goddesses

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.

  Marie Arana

  Doors, Mediocrity, Way

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• If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.

  Natalie

  Real, Voice, Mind

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• The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon.

  Diet Eman

  Country, Hands, Ideas

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• When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume. Meanwhile he offended pious Jews with their strict preconceptions of what God should be like. Their rejection makes me wonder, could religious types be doing just the reverse now? Could we be perpetuating an image of Jesus that fits our pious expectations but does not match the person portrayed so vividly in the Gospels?

  Philip Yancey

  Religious, Jesus, Feet

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.82, Harper Collins

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• Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.

  Hermann Goring

  Strong, War, Fighting

  Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

  Robert Hilburn

  Fighting, People, Inspire

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.

  Steve "Lips" Kudlow

  Jobs, Hate, Contentment

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

  Carl Bernstein

  Feminist, Perception, Saint

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing.

  John Darnielle

  Heart, Kids, Years

  "God bless youthful bastard bravery". Interview with Ben Kopel, logger.believermag.com. October 23, 2013.

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• When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons, demons!' When he was particularly angry or frustrated, he expressed these feelings with 'Damn,' the only curse he allowed himself. He once had the expletive inscribed on a rubber stamp so he could have the satisfaction of pounding it on a piece of paper.

  Deborah Davis

  Yelling, Feelings, Frustrated

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• O what a disgrace if such a despised and base race, which worships demons, should conquer a people which has the faith of omnipotent God and is made glorious with the name of Christ!

  Pope Urban II

  Race, Names, People

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• The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.

  Alan Turing

  Dragons, Principles, Benefits

  Epigram to Robin Gandy in 1954. "Alan Turing: The Enigma". Book by Andrew Hodges, p. 513, 1992.

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• I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?

  Georges Bernanos

  Jobs, Secret, Use

  Georges Bernanos (1938). “A Diary of My Times”

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• Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Dark, Men, Race

  "Bhawani Mandir (1905)". "India's Rebirth : A Selection from Sri Aurobindo's Writings, Talks and Speeches", 3rd edition. Book by Sri Aurobindo, 2000.

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• If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Procrastination, Men, Roaring

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Faces, Method

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.

  Steven Tyler

  Play, Looks, Problem

  "Aerosmith is better than ever says frontman Steven Tyler". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.csmonitor.com. July 17, 2010.

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• Only love... can kill the demon.

  Mickey Knox

  Only Love

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• It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

  Ed Helms

  Fun, Play, Amplify

  "At The Office with Ed Helms". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. August 21, 2007.

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• Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Angel, Risk, Actresses

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