Underminer Quotes

#1. Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

C.D. Darlington

#2. Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

Jeremy Collier

#3. Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

Philip Sidney

#4. Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

Terri Windling

#5. That's as it should be, they tell us. A certain percentage, they tell us, must every year go, that way, to the devil, I suppose, so that the rest may remain chaste, and not be interfered with. A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so scientific, so consolatory.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

Katherine Mansfield

#7. The leash snaps loose and trails after the little white dog like a kite streamer; then the knot closes, sealing shut. In seconds, an instant, there's no dog, no leash. No sound in the air.

Then Marcus says, 'The tree just ate the dead dog.'

'Yes,' says Jose. 'So it seems.

Veronica Rossi

#8. How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Mark Twain

#9. If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

Charles Caleb Colton

#10. I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

Matt Corby

#11. Quite frantically, he longed not to be.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. If a nation succeeds in making her people strong in virtues, then the nation is rich already.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.

Paul McCartney

#14. Tales of heroes end in bliss.

Tanith Lee