Wicked Quotations | Page 2

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

My expectation is Charlie will be looking for some sizable acquisitions to add onto Canon. The wicked side of me says Charlie has been angling for a job in the sun, and I'm sure he'll fit very well in la-la land.

Only through Love transformation of the so called wicked ones is possible.

I was stoked he did well (Thursday). We always say let's have a podium together. To do it here is wicked cool.

Cerf is a wicked smart guy who knows the ins and outs of the internet and internet policies better than anyone,

But this invites the occult mind, Cancels our physics with a sneer, And spatters all we knew of denouement,Across the expedient and wicked stones.

I'm always the bad guy. I tell the staff and the leaders of the team, 'It'd be nice if some of you would take a little of that on.' I feel like the Wicked Witch of the West all the time, but I'm not afraid of being unpopular. I worry about trying to do the right thing.

I have accomplished many things in life, but hardly any of that glorified God. But now that I've realized how wrong I was if I could help someone change their wicked ways maybe I could accomplish something for the better.

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked: / For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

He was a very quiet guy, unlike the rest of the rabble, ... He had a low-key, wicked sense of humor. I had no idea that he was writing anything until someone called me up and said, 'Frank McCourt's written this amazing book,' which turned out to be 'Angela's Ashes.'

What you're paying for is technique. And the opportunity to look truly wicked. Isn't it worth it as long as you look wicked and feel good?

Here is cruel Frederick, see! / A horrid wicked boy was he.

God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.

God made the wicked Grocer / For a mystery and a sign, / That men might shun the awful shop/ And go to inns to dine.

He was a larger-than-life figure, with a wicked sense of humor, and a great friend.

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

Reese said she was really sad she didn't get to see me do Wicked . All of our friends say we are the other.

Linux vs. Windows TCO studies are great business for analysts and wicked sales propaganda for companies, but I don't think high-tech vendors or their customers should take much stock in them.

I was trying to watch all three of them. I was focused on the 8 (First Wicked Lady) and then I glanced back because the colt was in the lead. Then I watched him go all the way to the wire.

It does mix it up, because sometimes she'll take on the role of putting frogs in Charlie's shoes and sometimes I will, ... combination of wicked wit and absolutely saintly spirit.

Did they look like anyone we know? For example… a cross between Pippi Longstocking and the Wicked Witch of the West would obviously give us Marcie Millar

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

The album takes you on a real roller-coaster ride. It's very different from anything out there right now. It's who Wicked Wisdom is.

The appeal of the paranormal bad boy - or James Bond super-spy, as one example of male escapism - can sometimes make everyday problems seem less dire. Thus, a few hours spent immersed in the world of the wicked yet alluring hero is the equivalent of a mini-vacation.

That was a wicked year. It snowed in our faces all day.

Utter the name of God; it acts like a spark, which can burn into ash a big hill of cotton! All evil thoughts, wicked plans and plots will disappear like fog before the Sun when the Name of God is remembered sincerely.

Tyler placed the ball well and he has wicked off-speed pitches and that is what fooled the batters, because Cody throws harder than Tyler.

Transpiration can have a cooling effect on an area's climate just like when you perspire-heat is wicked away with the water.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent . . .

The pious instructions of my parents were often fresh in my mind, when I happened to be among wicked children, and were of use to me.

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

Kat!” Gabrielle hissed. “You’re going to get caught." The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. “I know.

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

The crime he did was just brutal and horrible and wicked and all those things. Plus, he had three prior felonies.

About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.

There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes ... He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved.

How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.

She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

In this hole lives the wicked king.

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

With caffeinated beer, you can be wicked drunk and stay awake. It can be the middle of the night and I'll want to run laps around campus naked.

You can mess up on this course if you're not careful. If you hit your shots in the wrong places, you're going to have pretty wicked putts.

Well, he's doubled his own obscenity level, ... As they say in Boston, $63 million is wicked obscene. Here in New York City, we've got a different word to describe it.

You have turned that young girl, who was a perfect angel just a few days ago, into your accomplice. You are a wicked person. You are causing absolute strife in here and you've inveigled that young girl into your wicked spell.

We got off to a dreadful start with the wicked deflection for their first goal,

By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

This... this... 'coyote' is like, just another tool of this wicked administration, ... I mean are we supposed to accept the fact that it's okay for a predator like this to have nuclear weapons but it's not okay for say, a road runner or a baby harp seal? Coyotes like Wile E. are already waging nuclear war on defenseless road runners every day. I believe the pictures taken by my undercover operatives speak for themselves.

Eric Ashcroft, a gentle, kind, popular man with a wicked sense of humour, was always modest about his wartime exploits, but eventually, with much prompting from his persistent son, he told me of his terrifying experience on D-Day.

I've been a wicked girl," said I: "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!

The wicked abhor good things. One can gain more strength and energy by performing good deeds.

It was wicked bad. She was screaming in my face and saying that she was going to beat the crap out of me.

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and adore thee.

Praises make the wicked deaf(they can't tolerate criticism) while people who praise become successful because of their humility.

Often we wonder in our grief what is gained by our belief? Although night, and morning we pray, still our joys are swept away. And loved ones we would keep, with the dead are called to sleep. None is wise enough to say why the wicked seem to stay, and the beautiful and good leave before we think they should. But if death seemed always just, soon in God wed cease to trust. If for evil, death were meant as a bitter punishment; should the wicked only die, then heaven we seek on high. Having none we long to see would a fearful religion be. It is only by belief we are comforted in grief; it is only by our trust that the God we love is just. That we bear divinely planned. Griefs we cannot understand.

Death to a godly man is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but to a wicked man it is an east wind, a storm, a tempest, that hurries him away in confusion and amazement, to destruction.

A wicked way to hurt the heart of someone who loves you, is when you take advantage of their love, with lies and deception.

A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.

that there are some people on earth who are so wicked and so evil that nothing can be done but to confront them.

Your company should pay a wicked price for this. I will do my best to see that it does.

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

This movie questions whether the tragedies and disasters that are happening are man-made or do they collectively add up to something wicked this way comes, ... Fear has a tremendous power both socially and politically now. What's more relevant than anxiety of the unknown?

It's a wicked bug, ... It's an environmental organism that's wherever the soldiers are -- in the water, in the trenches. It's able to survive literally anywhere -- in food, on human skin, and in the bowels and intestines of humans. And it has become highly antibiotic-resistant, with all sorts of enzymes that incapacitate antibiotics and a pumping mechanism that literally pumps out the medicine.

For good and evil in our actions meet; wicked is not much worse than indiscreet

Democracy won't work if we're asleep...It's a wicked world and we're all in it/But that could change in a New York minute...So pray for peace until you're hoarse/And maybe fear will run its course.

Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

Taylor made us suffer too much in this country and helped to destroy Sierra Leone just for their diamonds. Now it is time for him to face justice for all the wicked things he did.

It wasn't a very good race. (The) conditions don't favor me at all. I was hoping for a slower course. It was wicked fast.

They want to have the loyalists back in the fray, so then the IRA can then say to the nationalists in the community, 'You need us, the IRA, to protect you against these wicked people.' But I don't think this will happen.

not only an untrustworthy scoundrel but a fundamentally wicked person.

I never saw a brute I hated so; / He must be wicked to deserve such pain.

I love the gay community. Naturally having been in this business since I was 17, I came into contact with gay people very young in my life. To me they were always the most talented, the kindest, they have the most wicked senses of humor - I always felt comfortable. I was never threatened, ever, and I just embraced them and loved them.

Inventing and reinventing the mobile handset is our mission at Motorola. We started with RAZR and will drive forward with even more wicked designs through the recently launched SLVR, PEBL and soon to be available Q families.

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.