Wicked Quotes - Page 13

• Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

  Blaise Pascal

  Party, Killing

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Revenge, Mistake, Men

  Mary Baker Eddy (1990). “Ciencia y salud: con clave de las escrituras”, Writings of Mary Baker Eddy

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• Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Strong, Powerful, Long

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Stars, Independent, Men

  "Fulton J. Sheen's Guide to Contentment". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 120, 1967.

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• When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Cutting

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.46, Penguin UK

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• We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Together, Crowds, Should

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• As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.

  Bob Dylan

  Sadness, Eden, Bird

  Song: Gates of Eden, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.

  Marie Osmond

  Stress, Trying, Needs

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• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Mother, Children, Smart

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• I was in the original cast of Wicked, and that got a bad review in The New York Times, and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  New York, Successful, Reviews

  "Norbert Leo Butz And The Root Of Evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

  David Baldacci

  Player, Ping Pong, Ping

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

  Gary Bauer

  News, Republican, Politician

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• But as far as dream roles - I know this is so expected of me, but I would to play Elphaba in 'Wicked' on Broadway. I have a lot of dream roles, but that's like my main one because of the vocal track. I love belting high things!

  Ariana Grande

  Dream, Love Is, Play

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• I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.

  Tom Petty

  Heart, Low Self Esteem, Coming Back

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• Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

  Squarepusher

  Writing, One Direction, Pushing

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• I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

  Big Pun

  Order, Law, Gone

  Song: Wrong Ones, Album: Yeeeah Baby, 2000

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• Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Politics, Prophet, Following

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• Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day son, a man had to answer for the wicked he done. Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, round up all the bad boys, and hang them in the streets for all the people to see.

  Toby Keith

  Son, Boys, Men

  "Song: "Beer for My Horses" ("Unleashed")". www.foxnews.com. 2002.

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• See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Wise, Gun, Fire

  Song: Don Quixote, 1975

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• I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Fall, Loss

  Appendices to "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien,

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• If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Rebellious, Ifs, Rascals

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.317, e-artnow

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• I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.

  William Kidd

  People, Has Beens

  Carrie (Jenkins) [Harris ("Mrs. C. W. Harris"]), Charles Edward Lloyd, Mary (Queen of Scots), Francis Hargrave, William Kidd (1899). “State Trials of Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain William Kidd”

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• ..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Believe, Men

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• Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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• We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in the morning I destroyed all the wicked of the earth, that I might cut off all evil-doers from the city of the Lord' (Ps. 101:8) - that is, the passions of the body and the soul's godless thoughts.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Morning, Passion

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