Devildom Quotes

#1. [A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.]
And I come here alone. For five
seven
eighteen
forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry ... '
So it comes with all faiths.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

Patti Smith

#3. Passion does not compensate for ignorance.

Samuel Chadwick

#4. Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.

P.T. Denys

#5. Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I'm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

Tori Amos

#6. It's so strange how one day you can be on this earth, and the next day not.

R.J. Palacio

#7. If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard!

Dolly Parton

#8. Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

Arianna Huffington

#9. Isabel sends her brother a look that could boil him in oil if she had that particular paranormal talent. A thought hits me: maybe she has. It will be fun to find out.

Marianne Curley

#10. Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

Iris Chang

#11. As a philanthropist, I give away a lot of money every year. Yet I thought there was a higher leverage to come in and create movies and TV shows that were actually able to do some good in the world.

Jeffrey Skoll

#12. Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

Allan H. Meltzer

#13. I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

Gertrude Stein

#14. You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.

Giulio Douhet

#15. I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.

D.H. Lawrence

#16. How many of us dig our own graves, thought William. We dig them with vigour and determination, unaware of the implications, but with all the conviction of those who do not really know what they are doing, who are impervious to the dangers that others can see so clearly.

Alexander McCall Smith