Shake The Devil Quotes & Sayings

There's a special madness strikes travellers from the North when they reach the lovely land where the lemon trees grow. We come from countries of cold weather; at home, we are at war with nature but here, ah! you think you've come to the blessed plot where the lion lies down with the lamb. Everything flowers; no harsh wind stirs the voluptuous air. The sun spills fruit for you. And the deathly, sensual lethargy of the sweet South infects the starved brain; it gasps: 'Luxury! more luxury!' But then the snow comes, you cannot escape it, it followed us from Russia as if it ran behind our carriage, and in this dark, bitter city has caught up with us at last, flocking against the windowpanes to mock my father's expectations of perpetual pleasure as the veins in his forehead stand out and throb, his hands shake as he deals the Devil's picture books. — Angela Carter

Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control. — Alex Ferguson

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake. — Charles Spurgeon

Negative media reinforcements not only influence how cops, judges, employers, and others view black males, they affect how young blacks view themselves. — Tom Burrell

It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work. — George Bernard Shaw

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. — Samuel Johnson

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell

When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost. — A.H. Almaas

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared. — Jack Kerouac

The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on. — Tori Amos

Will have to shake hands with the devil to save the innocent. — Cameron Jace

I've been going up and bombing everywhere. It's great. I love it. It's hilarious. — Hannibal Buress

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes. — James Russell Lowell

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty. — Jessica Jackley

You cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve. — Nancy A. Collins

It's hard to dance with the Devil on your back, So shake him off. — Florence Welch

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too ... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down. — Bob Marley

When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing was an easy number one. — Neil Gaiman

As she walked up the street, Raleigh couldn't shake the feeling that she'd just struck a deal with the devil. — Taisha DeMay

The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. — William Blake

spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying. — Laini Taylor

It is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon. — Tom Wolfe

See thou, whatsoever be thy name
whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me! — Leonid Andreyev

What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. — Victor Hugo

It's one thing to wave at the Devil from afar, quite another to shake the bastard's hand. — Joe R. Lansdale

If you shake the devil's hand, do not complain if he breaks it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor. — Aberjhani