Devil Quotes
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If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.
King James I
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One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
John Gardner
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Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
Marie Windsor
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I've sold my soul to the devil.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
Victor LaValle
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My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?
Jennifer Hudson
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For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.
Kirk Hammett
Metallica
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I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.
Oswald Chambers
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The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
Hyman G. Rickover
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I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.
Dean Karnazes
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Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin' like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory.
Mac Miller
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My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.
Penelope Cruz
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For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.
Malcolm X
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Though our own hearts break, we cannot flinch; these are new times, sir. There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respect and ancient friendships. I have seen too many frightful proofs in court - the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!
Arthur Miller
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History proves that the white man is a devil.
Malcolm X
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When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!
Jane Yolen
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Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
Arthur Hugh Clough
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Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort! / Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!
Charles Reade
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Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.
Ellen G. White
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However it happened, she at any rate suffered herself to be allured to the fatal spot, and so gave opportunity to the Devil. For we should keep as far as possible from that which is prohibited, nor ever tempt God by unnecessarily approaching it, either through curiosity or any other impelling cause. Had Eve avoided the vicinity of the tree, she could never have cast upon it that look which ruined herself and the world.
G. H. Pember
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I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
Camille Claudel
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
James A. Garfield
