Bedevil Quotes & Sayings

Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science. — Terence McKenna

There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy — Harry Chapin

To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must know the rules and abide by them. She could do that. She had been doing it all the months, in the writing of her letters to him. There had been rules to be learned in that matter, and the first of them was the hardest: never say to him what you want him to say to you. Never tell him how sadly you miss him, how it grows no better, how each day without him is sharper than the day before. Set down for him the gay happenings about you, bright little anecdotes, not invented, necessarily, but attractively embellished. Do not bedevil him with the pinings of your faithful heart because he is your husband, your man, your love. For you are writing to none of these. You are writing to a soldier. — Dorothy Parker

Drawing is the sum of directions. — Andre Lhote

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament. — Walter Bagehot

Who says that my dreams have to stay just my dreams? — Ariel

Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man.
- Adam Black — Karen Marie Moning

The choices that bedevil the writer bedevil the translator ten times over. — Margaret Atwood

You said you wanted Superman. And when Superman comes along, you give him the stink eye."
"I did not."
"Yes you did," Steve said. "If looks could kill, poor Superman would be a goner. — Ute Carbone

Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used to be. Awkwardness, rejection, missing out. We've conquered everything else and these constants of human life are all that remain to bedevil us. — Alexandra Petri

Fern's never had very good luck with animals. She smothers them with affection and care and they thank her by croaking. Fern hasn't figured out how to play hard to get. — Amy Harmon

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings. — Don Kardong

I'll kill him, I'll kill that motherfucker, — Lucian Bane

Facts do not become historical evidence until someone thinks up something for them to prove or disprove. — Cary Carson

If we understand the signals they are giving us, middle school kids can be fun and adventurous. If wse can find it in our hearts to overlook some of their quirky and mysterious behaviors, we can find them to be energetic and curious about how the world works around them. If we see the world as they view it, we can take their hand and guide them across the narrow bridges and frightening valleys they see sprawling before them. And finally, if we can reveal the patience to talk with them about the issues that confuse and bedevil them, we can find a world open for discussion and journey. — Dr. Kid Brain

I will stay living in Staffordshire. Other people would be moving offshore. I am reasonably happy to help support the British economy. I have done very well out of Britain. — John Caudwell

There are times when it becomes necessary to make a pact with the devil. But it can be especially delicious if one devil is used to bedevil another, don't you think? — Jeffrey Perren

I want to die and be finished forever. Don't you want to die?" he said. "I don't know." "What's the point of living if we don't die at the end of it?" In — Don DeLillo

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR! — Bill Gates

Youngish artists have a way of being melancholy. It may be that this is merely a symptom of the distress they feel at the absence of definition. They have no very distinct outline either of themselves or of the abstractions that bedevil them. They are, in short, likely to be a bit baffled. — Wallace Stevens

I'm able to support my wife and family off of gymnastics. But at the same time I do take it very seriously - it is a job for me. — Jonathan Horton

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently. — Jayni Chase

Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie ... Would that be intimidating? — Sandra Day O'Connor