Great Immorality Quotes

#1. We were created to be full. When we're not filled with the good things Christ came to bring us, we will grasp at anything as a substitute. An unsatisfied soul is an accident waiting to happen.

Beth Moore

#2. ADUNCITY (ADU'NCITY) n.s.[aduncitas, Lat.]Crookedness; flexure inwards; hookedness. There can be no question, but the aduncity of the pounces, and beaks of the hawks, is the cause of the great and habitual immorality of those animals.Arbuthnot and Pope'sMart. Scrib.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

James Gleick

#4. In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

Josh Billings

#6. For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. How does immorality slip into a person's life who is experiencing great emotional pain? It does so in the form of relief. The adversary disguises it to look good and justified in the early stages. By the time it is seen as bad medicine, it is well into the system of the patient.

Lois Mowday Rabey

#8. Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Randy Alcorn

#9. For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

Ellen Key

#10. However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#11. My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

Josh Earnest

#12. I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

Jodi Benson

#13. Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

Mary E. DeMuth

#14. The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?

Amy Robach

#15. What one must fear, moreover, is not so much the sight of the immorality of the great as that of immorality leading to greatness.

Alexis De Tocqueville