Carrie Nation (Carrie Amelia Nation) Quotes
To a priest who smoked: What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!
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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.
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I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.
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If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
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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.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
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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.'
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The devil take this wrong arithmetic. But never mind.
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We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
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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.
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Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
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I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil. Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.
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You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.
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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.
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“It certainly was a most beautiful insect. It was pale blue underneath; but its back was glossy black with huge red spots on it.”
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I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I work hard. I work 24/7.
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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
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To a priest who smoked: What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!
