Best running & evil Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.”

Years Running Evil Week New York Kingdoms Useless More Money Denmark Evil Things

Book:Prejudices Fourth Series

Source: Prejudices Fourth Series

“Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.”

Running Evil Father Lost Mankind Loneliness Conscious Woods

Book:For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio

Source: For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio

“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.”

Men May Doe Running Dies Evil Causes Community Moral Risk Source Disease Losing Labor Madness Wine Species Preserves Poison Disorder Idleness Quarrels Brutes Vigor Degrade Aversion

Author:Francois Fenelon

“The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.”

Men World Running Evil Millions Stupid Ten Hundred Coward Cowardice Ruling Shantaram Worldview Stupid People Evil Man World Domination Stupid Men Imperfect World Rulership

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.”

Long Philosophy Running Life Is Evil Belief Optimism Long Runs Life Is Good

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“You're not the only one accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across my back, well I can see you've had your fun.”

Wells I Can Running Evil Fun Track Misogyny Tire Accused Evil Women

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.”

Should Wells States Running Spirit Courses Evil Speak Goal Rich Lows Prosperity Evil Spirits

Book:The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre

Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre

“It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.”

People Believe Running Evil Cups

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government.”

Government Running Political Evil Felt Risk Profit Confusion Latter Display Arbitrary Gratification Concealed Unproductive

Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“President Obama is in China. Also in China is evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. They're both in China at the same time. It's like running into your ex-girlfriend on vacation.”

Running Evil President China Girlfriend President Obama Vacation Dictator Exes Putin Ex Girlfriend Your Ex

Author:David Letterman

“We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'”

World Trying Running Evil Sports Conquer Drs Tournaments Conquer The World

Author:Stuart Appleby

“In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.”

People Knows Mind Book Shows Bigs Running Guy Certain Evil Literature Smart This Guy Big Picture Evil People

Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.”

Needs Heart May Seems Running Evil Worry Grieving

Book:The Mother: A Novel

Source: The Mother: A Novel

“When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.”

Country Government Running Form Values Evil Sides Born Loss Safe Reasonable Good And Evil Submit Compounds Forms Of Government Partiality

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape it, for the evil will and the good will are caught alike in its meshes, and it is darkness to the eyes that see and a stumbling block to the feet that run. This law is called necessity.”

Made Eye Running Law Evil Justice Darkness Feet Terrible Caught Block Good Will Intricate Stumbling Mesh Stumbling Blocks Eyes That See

Author:Jessie Sampter

“We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.”

World Has Beens Made Sometimes Light Running Evil White Darkness This World Racism Deny Despite Symbols Inferiors Whiteness White Privilege

Book:Reena and Other Stories

Source: Reena and Other Stories

“Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.”

Running Evil Enemy Poverty Millions Health Broken Arms Valuable Torture Sickness Organs Shelter Digestion Alleviate Gout

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.”

Men Reason Eye Running Suffering Evil Wish Chance Grief Serious Fingers Affliction Irritation

Author:Plutarch

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