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This place had once been the seat of an evil older than mankind and wider than the known universe.


H.P. Lovecraft

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KELLY JONES I am just so appreciative of God's love. It's higher than any mountain, wider than any ocean...
FRED HAMMOND Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and ...
ELLEN DATLOW There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
STEPHEN HAWKING There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vi...
REBECCA WEST There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of ...
REBECCA WEST I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the Unit...
ALAN WATTS Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wonder...
PAULO COELHO She saw the inherent evil in segregation and she had the courage to fight it in its common place, a ...
SAM BROWNBACK The overall number where there is actually a problem is still low, but more importantly, you've got,...
KEAY NAKAE Bannon should never have had a permanent seat on the NSC, as he is a political operative, and the NS...
PETER BERGEN This is an amazing place, historically. It's sort of the seat of reformation, at least in Britain, a...
PETER THOMSON Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the d...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I wish someone older than me and wiser than the people in Orlando had taken me aside.
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
EDEN AHBEZ We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, olde...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either-...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human bloo...
LANGSTON HUGHES There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
C. JOYBELL C. The Brain is wider than the sky-.
EMILY DICKINSON The Brain is wider than the sky.
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SUSAN VREELAND He went a little wider than I wanted to go, but I had a lot of horse and he did the rest.
STEVE HAMILTON your brain is wider than the sky
EMILY DICKINSON The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, ...
SHIMON PERES In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mank...
HENRY BROOKE He had never known anyone who had lived one place their whole life and I had never known anyone who ...
HEIDI ADAMSKI Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the oth...
PHILIPPA GREGORY ...in this universe we live in. Stranger things have been known to happen.
ARNOLD ARRE If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one tha...
JOHN STUART MILL The history of mankind is a history of war.
MIKE LOVE I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecra...
FRED SEIBERT Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
QUINTILIAN Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN We've not been able to place these brush strokes into the context of a wider canvas.
GRAEME STEPHENS He's more a mobile player than an impact player. If we had a pitch 10 yards longer and wider, he wou...
ARSENE WENGER The universe has inspired so many reasons behind the reasons we know!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were old...
ANNETTE BENING I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They p...
JOSS WHEDON Trent Green is older than Kurt Warner, and I believe the last couple of years he's been around 4,000...
KEITH ROWEN We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
MENCIUS The stomach is the seat of all feeling. The heart is the seat of the conscience. The mind is the sea...
SUZY KASSEM If you consume more than one seat, you will be charged for more than one seat.
BETH HARBIN Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad i...
IMMANUEL KANT A great man once said that right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
LEMONY SNICKET I'm saying this thing could be much bigger than the 10, 15 [seat pickup] I've been talking about for...
JOHN LINDER The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]
RICHARD BAXTER Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions tha...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind
EDWARD MORRISON The moment you say , , or , the skies will open for you and the non- physical energies b...
ESTHER HICKS If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mank...
JOHN STUART MILL The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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JULIE SLOAN If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that o...
JOHN STUART MILL I would rather have a back row seat in the house of the lord than a front row seat amoung the rich a...
ALBEN WILLIAM BARKLEY The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
ANNA LINDH The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned ent...
HERMAN MELVILLE My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters o...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding ...
LARRY WALL This time you're going to bring in people who were educated in Vietnam and have much wider experienc...
CARL THAYER Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is b...
IMMANUEL KANT Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.
RIDLEY PEARSON But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross i...
G. K. CHESTERTON It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, man...
JOHN STUART MILL There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
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SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE 4-H is wider than you can imagine,
LINDA KING Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be...
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had a w...
A. LEE BROCK a nuclear reaction is produced due to the fact that a universe with a certain amount of space (evil)...
STEVE BULLOCK Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
ARISTOTLE Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole
ARISTOTLE The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.
R.D. BLACKMORE In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
EDWARD GIBBON History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
EDWARD GIBBON For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and ha...
BIBLE It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have...
JONATHAN SWIFT Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement a...
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BEVERLY LEWIS His head had swollen to nearly three times its normal size. His neck was the same. It was wider than...
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JOHN PIPER The call to public service is stronger than the politics of fear, ... I'm going to take back this se...
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DAVID CHANG If i'm louder would you see me?
NIALL HORAN He is, and further than that, if he were subject to blackmail, it would have been before a lot of th...
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H. P. LOVECRAFT All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no val...
H. P. LOVECRAFT The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mi...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward kee...
H. P. LOVECRAFT What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them v...
H. P. LOVECRAFT The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by convent...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
H. P. LOVECRAFT The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe a...
H. P. LOVECRAFT I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think t...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a co...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which e...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discov...
H. P. LOVECRAFT I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture an...
H. P. LOVECRAFT The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic l...
H. P. LOVECRAFT But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. LOVECRAFT I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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