If you’re going to talk about the devil, at some point you’ve got to meet the devil.
Grassroots techies – the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don’t make the headlines – hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.
When it comes down to the devil in the detail of dealing with the issues… and making real change, Trump, you don’t have it. You’ve never had it.
The system is very well regulated in L.A. It’s designed to disconnect you from whatever your idea of yourself is. If you’re among devils and they realise you’re not a devil like they are, there’s gonna be some great discomfort.
Nigel Farage said he would do a deal with the devil to get Brexit over the line; the Conservative party is very far from being the devil in this.
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord.
When I was making my first record, I think I felt slightly trapped by my mind and my genre. I think in one way, that archaic language I was using came from a kind of mild obsession with the devil.
People call me crazy and a madman. Even ‘Tasmanian Devil.’ I’d rather be called the ‘Tasmanian Angel.’
What I had noticed is that there weren’t a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ which may have been something I wanted to address.
Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don’t really know.
I remember my parents taking me to see ‘The Exorcist’ in theaters when I was really young. They’re Cuban and didn’t really speak English, so I don’t think they got that it was a movie about a girl possessed by the devil.
James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.
Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?
I’m often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The ‘Devil in the White City’ was a fluke.
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Idle time is the devil’s play.
The devil is a fun character to play because he’s everywhere and no where all the time.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.
Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you’ve seen the devil.
Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It’s tempting, of course.
The Devil is fun.
I had one lesson with Devil’s Horsemen, who do a lot of the horse-riding stuff for films. They train actors to look reasonable on horses. They do ‘Game of Thrones’, everything.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.
The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.
I’d have to say, and I think that most Christians would hold the view, that there is such a thing as evil, and there are evil forces at work. You can articulate that by talking about Satan or the Devil; that’s sound, Scriptural teaching.
I have a soul the devil wouldn’t buy.
Money is not of the devil. It depends on who’s controlling it.
I’m not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I’d confront him as well.
The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.
You slam a politician, you make out he’s the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who’s had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.
I could care less about what people think. I’m a Devil Without A Cause.
My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it’s about pain, in whichever form it comes. I had a lot of energy as a child – sometimes too much – and I didn’t know how to channel it. It was making me suffer. It was bigger than myself, and I was very young.
Most of the time – in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ or ‘Devil’s Backbone’ – I’m talking about my childhood.
There is no more divisive character in modern politics than Steve Bannon, as he symbolizes the devil incarnate for the heaving, emotional left.
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.
Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired – up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
Probably the toughest time in anyone’s life is when you have to murder a loved one because they’re the devil.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Twitter is the Devil’s playground.
The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
It always baffles me how people can lift you up so high and make it seem like they love you then you do one thing wrong and it’s all of a sudden you the devil and you evil and everything you do from then on isn’t right.
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man’s inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself – a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
What’s fun about these pure action games hasn’t really changed since the 8-bit days. Every time I make a new ‘Devil May Cry’ game, I always go back and play one of the ‘Ghouls & Ghosts’ games to remember what it is about those pure action experiences that’s fun.
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Fear comes by hearing and a hearing by the word of the devil. The lies of Satan.
Obviously if you’re Coppola going into ‘Apocalypse Now’ off the back of the two ‘Godfathers,’ you’re in a much better position than coming off the back of something like ‘Dust Devil,’ which had scarcely been released, and was pretty much lying around in film cans in different places.
I think there’s a part when you sign your soul to the devil and start working in Los Angeles that you also sign away that you could be a human being in anyone’s eye. You’re like a robot!
I did an adaptation for a movie called ‘The Devil in the White City’ by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.
I hope you’re representing the devil’s advocate.
Onstage, I am a devil. But I’m hardly a social reject.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
The devil I know is the establishment, and I’m gonna beat that devil.
My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil’s advocate.
Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.
Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency – and don’t complain about the heat.
Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.
