Duppy Quotes & Sayings

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization. — Theodore Dalrymple

This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact. — William Safire

One day you see a man walking down the road, the next day you come to his yard and find him dead ... Why is it that he cannot do what the living do? It is because the thing that gave power to these parts is no longer there. That is the duppy, and that is the most powerful part of any man. Everybody has evil in them, and when a man is alive ... he will not abandon himself to many evil things. But when the duppy leaves the body, it no longer has anything to restrain it and it will do more terrible things than any man ever dreamed of.
- From 'Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica', Zora Neale Hurston, 1938 — Charles A. Cornell

No. I'm here because you told me to come home. But we both know I won't truly be home until I'm back between your sheets, Professor. He — Ella Frank

Not only do they offend thee, O Lady, who outrage thee, but thou art also offended by those who neglect to ask thy favors ... He who neglects the service of the Blessed Virgin will die in his sins ... He who does not invoke thee, O Lady, will never get to Heaven ... Not only will those from whom Mary turns her countenance not be saved, but there will be no hope of their salvation ... No one can be saved without the protection of Mary. — Bonaventure

In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino. — Frederick Reines

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image. — Valerie June

If you look at groups in the Palestine region, Hamas and the Palestine Islamic jihad, more often than not in their first operations they would accidentally blow themselves up on the way to the target or the bomb wouldn't go off. — Michael Scheuer