Devil Quotes
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And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.
Christopher Gadsden
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
Bette Midler
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Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? - This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Laurence Sterne
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There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.
Andy Grove
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Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.
David Crystal
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The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
Dag Hammarskjold
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To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
George Bernard Shaw
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When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
R. A. Torrey
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If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.
John Harvey Kellogg
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The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.
El DeBarge
DeBarge
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This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.
Taylor Hackford
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Some readers will no doubt say that a devil is inside me; and though my faith is a bit like Magic FM in the Chilterns, in that the signal comes and goes, I can only hope that isn't so.
Boris Johnson
