The White Devil Power Quotes & Sayings

In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die. — Bertrand Russell

How she wished she'd asked Father more about this Jack Ludgrove instead of storming out in a huff. — Robin Lee Hatcher

Be perceptive.
Be progressive.
Be proactive.
Be productive. — Matshona Dhliwayo

She turns her back to us, starting up the stairs slowly, her legs shaking with every step.
I think she forgot to put her skeleton in, says Margot. — Claire King

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. — Oscar Wilde

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job. — Mickey Rooney

It's an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That's it. That's pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and obviously at some point something catastrophic was going to happen, and I broke my hand. — Michael Vick

O that I were a man, or that I had power

To execute my apprehended wishes!

I would whip some with scorpions. — John Webster

Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you. — Donna Lynn Hope

People, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Bob Burgess, after the tall man with the tasseled scarf turned down a side — Elizabeth Strout

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. — Karl Marx

I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess. — Ellsworth Kelly

Jiu-Jitsu is my therapy, my passion, my life. — Matt Serra

Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so dull, and like the White Queen one had to run so fast to stay where one was, let alone progress; and there were few men who dared to say they had found God. It was easy to be a clever sinner, for the race to an earthly visible goal was short to run, so impossibly hard to be a wise saint, with the goal set at so vast a distance from this world and clouded with such uncertainty. — Elizabeth Goudge