Joanne Rowling Quotes

Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.

Joanne Rowling

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• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grief

• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  

  Xenophon
  • Know
  • Grief
  • Sympathy

• Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Water
  • Evil
  • Like

• Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Evil

• Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Marriage
  • Commitment
  • Grief

• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Men
  • Long

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Man
  • Evil

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • May
  • Book
  • Society

• We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Evil
  • Fight
  • Feet

• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Evil
  • Brother
  • Sister

• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Disease

• Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand,Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land?Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong,And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throngTroops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • People
  • She
  • Truth

• With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I don't want to hear any drama [about me]. I don't want any negativity. I don't want to hear what's on the blog. I don't care what others say about me.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Care
  • Drama
  • Negativity

• To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Important
  • Character
  • Words

• Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Evil
  • Grief