![He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.](/assets/img/quote-photos/he-who-sups-with-the-devil-had-better-have-a-long-spoon-the-devilry-of-modernity.jpg)
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gone-away love-of-my-life feelings
Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life. Dave Grohl
gone-away sun meanness
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. Cormac McCarthy
gone-away ideas long
Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable. Barbara Ehrenreich
gone-away needs stones
The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there. Mick Taylor
gone-away gone ritual
The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. Ray Bradbury
gone-away interesting long
He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company. Peter L. Berger
gone-away credit unions
Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty. Suze Orman
gone-away gone gray
The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor. Rosie O'Donnell
interesting way anything-goes
Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way. Beck
interesting film-and-television fandoms
For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me. Carrie Brownstein
interesting cases ufo
UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable. Carl Sagan
interesting looks endeavor
The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting. Bill Bryson
interesting likes persons
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person. Bette Davis
interesting not-good-enough saint
I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting. Bernadette Devlin
interesting president reason
Something that is interesting about the current polling is that, as you watch Hillary's [Clinton] numbers fluctuate, part of the reason that they are is because the Obama coalition, younger voters, African-American voters, Latino voters, they're not showing up in as large a number for her as they did for President [Barack] Obama. Bill Burton
interesting sticks done
It's more interesting for me to stick things out anonymously - you get more of an honest reaction to what you've done.
interesting people projects
It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting.
longer matter relief weeks
Our relief is not going to be a matter of weeks and months, but probably much longer than that.
longer message misery payoff remain suffering terms
Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.
longer people seem shocked
People no longer seem shocked by expressions of overt bigotry, David Friedman
longer looking planets prior stars start terms
Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to be very much longer in astronomical terms before planets start forming.
longer mean monitor
Some of the things you monitor no longer mean the same thing.
long periods long-periods-of-time
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
long chance i-loved-you
I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get. Becca Fitzpatrick
long political quality
'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?' Barry Ritholtz
long people trying
My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people. Barry Lopez