Carrie Nation (Carrie Amelia Nation) Quotes

When asked her occupation: Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

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• In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • You
  • Culture
  • Order

• The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Gold
  • Devil
  • Mud

• I don't order laws, I propose them.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Order
  • Laws
  • Them

• Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Religion

• When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

  

  Dan Totheroh
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Bad

• I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Women
  • Think

• Because of all this, I am at a loss to know whether to weep more for those they killed or those that are captured: or indeed for these men themselves whom the devil has taken fast for his slaves. In truth, they will bind themselves alongside him in the pains of the everlasting pit: for 'he who sins is a slave already' and is to be called 'son of the devil.'

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Taken

• Hist, now, between you an' meself and the stanchion there, this Wolf Larsen is a regular devil, an' the Ghost'll be a hell ship like she's always been since he had hold iv her.

  

  Jack London
  • She
  • Devil
  • Wolf

• Maybe just an ice cold brew what's a beer, that's the devil in my ear, I've been sober a fucking year and that fucker still talks to me, he’s all I can fuckin' hear 'Marshall, come on, we'll watch the game, it's the Cowboys and Buccaneers!'

  

  Eminem
  • Game
  • Cold
  • Devil

• The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Devil

• The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • God
  • Money
  • May

• I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • God
  • Universe
  • Devil

• Guard thee from the power of evil; Who cannot trust, vows to the devil.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Power
  • Trust
  • Evil

• I resolved passionately to reach the spiritual causes of phenomena, and to dominate the material world which I detested by their means. I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • World
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• 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
  • Life
  • Health
  • Devil

• I wrote a few unsuccessful screenplays before I wrote 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.' I wrote them as television plays that never got made. I'm glad I wrote them - I think it was a good experience.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Devil

• I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Words

• What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the genre of reality like it's television from the devil, and that's something that I don't like because I think everybody should watch what they like. It's a free world. It's a form of democracy. If you like it, watch. If you don't like it, don't watch.

  

  John de Mol, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Free

• In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.

  

  David Oliver
  • Greatness
  • Order
  • Motivational

• Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • God
  • Truth
  • Reality

• The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Giving
  • Payment
  • Creditors

• I think there's inherently an issue that models will literally never be able to handle, which is that when somebody comes along with a new way of doing something that's really excellent, the models will not recognize it. They only know how to recognize excellence when they can measure it somehow.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Able
  • Issues
  • Excellence

• When asked her occupation: Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

  

  Carrie Nation
  • Devil
  • Order
  • Direct