305 quotes found
“Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.”
“If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.”
“Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.”
“Dr Sassmaintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ...”
“I am trying now to be entirely honest. I did actually comfort in the thought that the Devil had, on Strawless Common, defeated God. I much preferred that thought to the thought that God hadn't care...”
“You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.”
“Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes...”
“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination, boldly and arbitrarily defying the...”
“The devil invites mankind to rebellion and disorder. With his litany of subterfuges, he sows discord and incites us to pour out our hatred upon each other. "Old Scratch" always makes noise and a lo...”
“We don't live as God intended us to, but we live as the Devil wants us to.”
“Evil is of the devil.”
“Why must I always be a man's servant?" Lada demanded. "If anything, I should be partners with the devil, not his servant.”
“avo ti nee naplatiti ulaz, ali e ti uvek naplatiti izlaz. Makar e pokuati. Zapravo, on je nepopravljivi optimista! Moe da mu okrene lea. On tebi nee nikada. Stalno e te poseivati, svraati na aj, da...”
“Do not be your own devil.”
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of tod...”
“Three generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old, so clear and strong that he could slip his warm hand in mine, he could lift me in theair, yes, l...”
“I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is read by an audie...”
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
“A person who lives by the rules of the world cannot resist the devil, cannot fight him”
“The Devil teaches women what they are or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”
