Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.Joyce Carol Oates
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
Taylor Swift -
I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
N. Scott Momaday -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.
Parker Posey -
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
W. C. Fields -
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
Walter Gropius -
I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
Dana Ashbrook -
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Pablo Picasso -
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
Vin Scully -
Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.
Jack Ramsay -
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Maggie Smith
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'Now you understand,' Rarm said to me. 'It was the last cut against yourself to become convinced of your own hideousness. You held to it and nurtured it, and even identified with the devil goddess of Orash in your determination to be accursed. And it never occurred to you that perhaps you saw a false image under the mountain.'
Tanith Lee -
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
Albert Einstein -
Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
David Garrick -
I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.
Jim Webb -
As someone who's run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I'd be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.
Jeanine Pirro -
The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.
El DeBarge DeBarge
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Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.
Little Richard -
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
Vladimir Nabokov -
I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.
Silas Weir Mitchell -
Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.
Joyce Carol Oates