Devis'd Quotes

#1. Never were finer snares for womens' honesties
Than are devis'd in these days ; no spider's web's
Made of a daintier thread, than are now practis'd
To catch love's flesh-fly by the silver wing

Thomas Middleton

#2. Another one of President Barack Obama's nominees is having tax issues, which proves one thing: The Democrats like raising the taxes, but they hate paying them.

Craig Ferguson

#3. Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.

Lao-Tzu

#4. My father quoted Shakespeare to me often and when I lay a book down with splayed pages he told me better to be cruel to animals, children even, but never so cruelly treat a book.

Christine Wade

#5. Of all the components of the ecosystem, humans are the only ones we know to be completely optional.

Herb Hammond

#6. The most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

Ellin Devis

#7. It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

Thomas Aquinas

#8. I've never made movies to reach millions of people.

Guy Maddin

#9. The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

Ellin Devis

#10. How pathetic this town must be to find a fuckup like me as their savior.

Karina Halle

#11. It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

Barack Obama

#12. Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth , round which the Sun , the Moon , and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity , and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre.

John Dee

#13. Reading is such a huge part of my life.

Veronica Roth

#14. There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

Arthur Koestler

#15. There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.

Ellin Devis

#16. Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

Maggie Nelson

#17. So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#18. Communion, by necessity, always leads us into community.

Ann Voskamp

#19. Liberty," he continued, wrinkling his nose at the used condom that lay on the bottom flight of steps, toeing it to the side of the stairs with distaste. "Someone could slip on that. Break their necks," he muttered, interrupting himself. "Like a banana peel, only with bad taste and irony thrown in.

Neil Gaiman