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I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done

I can honestly say that in The Murder City Devils band we achieved everything that I could've ever hoped for or wanted. We did all that, which is the luckiest, craziest, and weirdest thing. Essentially, it was sort of like my dream come true in a way, so once that's happened, you sort of stop being surprised.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.

I, Charles W. Penrose, wrote the Manifesto with the assistance of Frank J. Cannon and John White... Wilford Woodruff signed it to beat the devil at his own game.

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens and everything comes together. I've just realized I have to live with that devil on my shoulder a little bit more.

I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

I'd fallen in love with the devil.

I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

I did the Justice League thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You cant do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

I didn't realize when I brought him back here that you'd inflict more damage." I said, once I'd finished the story. "I was defending your honor." Adrian gave me that devil-may-care smile that always managed to both infuriate and captivate me. "Pretty manly, huh?

I crawled in the bathroom, looked in the mirror and saw the devil. It was me.

I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.

I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.

I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape.

I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

Idle time is the devil's play.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.

I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

I do sin, but I am not the devil.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

If I could ask Ken Lay one question right now, do you know what it would be? "Does the Devil really wear Prada?

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.