Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• Humor
• Imperfection

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• 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

• Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Incredible

• 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

• If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • World
  • Me
  • Evil

• My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Fear
  • Evil

• 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Medical

• Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Fun
  • Sometimes
  • Humor

• Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Good
  • Truth

• You are my evil spirit... you and the hard course world!

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Evil

• I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Together

• I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Evil

• Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Solitude

• We’re neither good nor evil. We’re simply interested in things as they are.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Good
  • Evil

• There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Knowledge

• Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Commit
  • Human Rights
  • Great Nation

• The kids were both adolescents, at that happy stage where they could simultaneously make him confident about the future while they were sabotaging the present.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Future

• One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Radical

• From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Evil
  • Humor
  • Imperfection