Quotes 301 till 320 of 504.
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
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People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
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Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
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Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying.Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn, it looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.
Bob Dylan (1962) -
Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
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So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
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