Carrie Nation (Carrie Amelia Nation) Quotes

God is a politician; so is the devil.

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• Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• 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
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

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

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Gold
  • Devil
  • Mud

• 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.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Thought
  • My Life

• 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

• I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Me
  • Devil
  • Horrible

• 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

• The devil take this wrong arithmetic. But never mind.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Mind
  • Devil

• 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

• 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'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.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Dance
  • Devil

• In a way, the debate about Margaret Thatcher in Britain has just gotten fossilized in this notion that she is either this she-devil who wrecked the industrial base of the country and ruined the lives of millions, or she is the blessed Margaret who saved the nation and rescued us from our post-war decline.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Country
  • Blessed
  • Devil

• The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

  

  Kerry Packer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Heaven

• I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Bad
  • Soul
  • Success

• Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • Door
  • Devil
  • Temptation

• 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
  • Reality

• I forgot that to rely on a train, in Blair's Britain, is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Devil

• In 'Twice Born' I play my character in her 20s, 30s and 50s. For the fifty year old scenes, I had some prosthetics; it was interesting to see how I'm going to look when I'm fifty-five or so. I actually saw similarities between my grandmothers and my mother.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Character
  • Mother
  • Interesting

• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Without

• The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

  

  Annie Jacobsen
  • Truth
  • War
  • Reality

• The only thing that saved that man that night was I didn't have mine. That was it. Bottom line. I just slipped that night. But I won't ever slip again.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Night
  • Man
  • Bottom Line

• Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • True
  • Nature

• God is a politician; so is the devil.

  

  Carrie Nation
  • Devil
  • Politician