Devolves Quotes

#1. Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.

David Platt

#2. It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

Walter Chrysler

#3. Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

A.E. Samaan

#4. Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Confucius

#5. When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

Monica Crowley

#6. With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. The real problem devolves around class lines once again: it's the street hormones that folks without insurance, or folks who are too young for prescriptions without parental okay, use. Sometimes those hormones can be pretty rough.

Kate Bornstein

#8. Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.

Ben Shapiro

#9. Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

Grenville Kleiser

#10. Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

Simon Greenleaf

#11. One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

#12. Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

Todd Stocker

#13. A discussion about the miraculous quickly devolves to an argument about whether or not one is willing to consider any possibility whatsoever of the supernatural

Francis S. Collins

#14. You may think you don't want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn't feel so mere.
From then on the planet becomes a waiting room. The rest of your life devolves to no more than the time between highs.

Jerry Stahl

#15. Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.

Robert Barron

#16. One cannot keep on evangelizing the world without interfering with the world's culture. It devolves upon God's people, therefore, to contend for such a society which will give the maximum opportunity for us to live wholly Christian lives and the maximum opportunity for others to become Christians.

Henry R. Van Til

#17. New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New York City is as vitriolic as the relationship with myself and with any other human being which means that it changes every millisecond, that it's in constant fluctuation.

Timothy Levitch

#18. I cannot remember the time when I was not writing, or when I did not mean to be a writer...I was an indefatigable scribbler

L.M. Montgomery

#19. Yesterday, today, tomorrow and maybe forever, living and leaving without you.

M.F. Moonzajer

#20. Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.

Douglas Adams

#21. If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams.

Steve Winwood

#22. When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

Oliver Herford

#23. Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

Anne Tyler

#25. Audrey isn't the type of girl to wait around for anyone; she's strong and she makes her own happiness. If she wants a bouquet of roses, she's sure as hell not going to wait for me to give it to her. She'll go out and plant her own fucking garden.

Kimberly Lauren

#26. There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

Ricky Gervais

#27. Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

Billy Bob Thornton

#28. You will be more strong if you face your fears... so start by facing them!

Deyth Banger

#29. Would Emma think him too bold for sharing something so intimate with her? She carefully folded the letter and then held up the cross as if admiring it. "This is too special a gift. I couldn't possibly accept - " "Please. I want you

Jody Hedlund

#30. Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor