To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
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At the end of the day, it is all politics. Everything else is just pretext.
KAYODE FAYEMI After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG And Goodness knows
The Wicked's lives are lonely
Goodness knows
The Wicked die alo...
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ GLINDA: Well,I'm a public figure now! People expect me to--
ELPHABA: Lie?
GLIN...
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; ...
MARTIN GARDNER Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despi...
HENRY MILLER How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of...
HERBERT BUTTERFIELD But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of...
HERBERT BUTTERFIELD We were on these wicked bikes and everything just goes down the drain.
MITCHELL COOKE Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
ANTHONY ROBBINS One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as lon...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS You may be as orthodox as the devil and as wicked
JOHN WESLEY God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock ...
VOLTAIRE My shadow serves as the friend I crave.
ANNA AKHMATOVA One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the e...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a ...
ROBERT SMITHSON Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his
merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) It's just life, so keep dancing through.
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.
NATHANIEL WING As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
LORD BYRON Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
UNKNOWN Indonesia is also a democracy that upholds freedom of expression, but such freedom cannot be used as...
YURI THAMRIN There's a lot of pretext strikes, I can tell you, ... That's part of what a judge has to do, is find...
HENRY WADE The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.
MARK RIPPETOE I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrol...
VOLTAIRE You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.
VOLTAIRE One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER I'm a gypsy. A rogue. Wicked as they come.
DELILAH S. DAWSON There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
BERTRAND RUSSELL It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controvers...
NOAM CHOMSKY I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on ...
DANIEL TAMMET We are committed to assuring the health and safety of psychiatric patients as well as the staff that...
FRAN LEWIS He serves his party best who serves the country best.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES He serves his party best who serves the country best.
RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.
GüNTER GRASS But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.
ALEX GIBNEY Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
BIBLE Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
LIONEL TRILLING Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood
LIONEL TRILLING It's wicked good coffee, wicked fast.
DAVE CLARK I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.
JOHN TAYLOR This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the...
KENDRICK MEEK The library is totally inadequate in terms of its size, as far as the community that it serves.
KATAYOON SHAYA One turn serves another.
FRENCH PROVERB In serving the poor,
one serves humanity.
In serving mankind,
one serves equity.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Freedom of expression has always been a pretext for Westerners ... to insult the beliefs of Muslims.
FARID MORTAZAVI We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every online message encourages me and serves as new support for me to do better.
ZHANG HAO The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military base...
EVO MORALES The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia'...
CARLOS MESA The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego
SOKE BEHZAD AHMADI pretext for intervention in northern Iraq by Iran and Iraq.
BOB DOLE The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold
as a lion.
BIBLE A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to aboli...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Tis a wicked, wicked world when men take it upon themselves to be God.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit ...
RUSSELL M. NELSON When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to ...
BIBLE He serves me most who serves his country best.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Wicked,
THE WIZARD OF OZ And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
JANE AUSTEN To the poor some businesses are menial,but to the rich all businesses are rich,so long as it serves ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three ...
MICHAEL DIRDA I'm hoping her death serves as a clarion call for people in this country to call for the rights of L...
CRAIG WASHINGTON She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
ALASDAIR GRAY IBM is pleased to have Voltaire as an open specification partner and Blade.Org member. It allows us ...
JUHI JOTWANI We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
[Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus seg...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having
studied nature from his youth, knows the...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) The market seems to be tied more to the Dow nowadays than it is to Nasdaq and brokers seemed to have...
GABRIEL JAFET He serves his party best who serves his country best.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES There are only do and don’t; can or can’t is just an excuse.
M.F. MOONZAJER All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I chea...
CHARLES DICKENS There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all s...
VOLTAIRE A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
BRUCE LEE Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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