Wicked Things Quotes

• The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

  Jeremiah

  Heart, Wicked, Deceit

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• All things truly wicked start from innocence.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Wicked, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Average, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As long as the Children of Israel saw Pharaoh as a friend, they could not see Moses and Jehovah as their true friend. As they came into consciousness - by the wicked things that Pharaoh continued to do against them - that Pharaoh was indeed their enemy, then Moses and Jehovah's call to them to separate from Pharaoh to build a nation of their own became a reality.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Children, True Friend, Reality

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer.

  Florence King

  Kings, Queens, Cancer

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.127, Macmillan

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• It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wicked

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.

  Rhys Darby

  Character, Mean, Wicked

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.

  George Herbert

  Wicked

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

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• But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.

  Vivien Leigh

  Morning, Stupid, Responsibility

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• Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Wicked, Art Is

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• Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions. It is a wicked thing either to support or oppose a man because of the creed he possesses. . . . Such a movement directly contravenes the spirit of the Constitution itself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Religious, Men, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.358, Cosimo, Inc.

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• She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Ego, Wicked, Important

  Patrick Rothfuss (2014). “The Slow Regard of Silent Things”, p.58, Penguin

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• A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Hate, Heart

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• Boarding school is a wicked thing.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  School, Wicked

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• The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Uncles, Lying, Hero

  "The Last Unicorn". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1968.

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• Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Eye, Dark

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• To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving, Wicked, Dominion

  "A Mercy". Book by Toni Morrison, November 11, 2008.

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• Love makes us do wicked things.

  Keith Donohue

  Wicked

  Keith Donohue (2010). “Angels of Destruction”, p.187, Random House

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• And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  People, Upset, Wicked

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2011). “Winter Solstice”, p.466, Macmillan

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• Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor.

  Cesar Chavez

  Years, People, Peaceful

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• In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Religion, Wicked

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Hitchens vs Blair”, p.10, Random House

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• A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all the wicked things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so that he can go to heaven. The fear of the Christian is not going to hell. The fear of the Christian is being separated from Christ.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Hate, Heaven

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• I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

  Antisthenes

  Wicked, Done

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (Book 6: The Cynics)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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