Top 21 Hindmost Quotes
#1. one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Is
David Mitchell
#2. Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeve of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.
Herman Melville
#3. Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
George Eliot
#4. And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
Robert Penn Warren
#6. If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
Ben Stein
#7. The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of
other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity."
Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History
of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99
Roger Lowenstein
#8. When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?
Guillermo Diaz
#9. stylish, successful, engaged, and all by twenty-eight years old, no less.
Jessica Knoll
#10. Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
Simone Signoret
#13. I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
Action Bronson
#14. Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.
Thomas Szasz
#15. I feel comfortable in my skin ... I used to run around my house naked when I was 13.
Britney Spears
#16. It was a unique experience. He'd never been jealous of a juice glass before.- Kelon
Sarah McCarty
#18. Sometimes, you ask questions not to get the answer but to get the better understanding of question itself.
Foaad Ahmad
#19. We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
John Galsworthy
#20. What if I'm just a sick animal? A creature shuffled into existence here by the random whims of evolution. Nothing more. An existence totally without inherent meaning, totally without purpose. What
Tim McBain
#21. The goal of the judicial system should be to rehabilitate wrongdoers rather than harming them,
Steven Pinker
