Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.
Eric Hoffer
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER I feed my devils, so they let me live in peace, with peace.
EHDDAH The commission is an absurd concept. It's overly broad. It's more powerful than any regulatory agenc...
PAUL JANNUZZO One sees more devils than vast hell can hold
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I have the most beautiful souls in my life supporting me and helping me to follow my dreams. I love ...
BINDI IRWIN Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance!
DEYTH BANGER World is full of lost lives, full of unfortunate souls ruined in the name of unreasonable religious ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And ...
JOHN GREEN A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.
PAULO COELHO The best prayers have often more groans than words.
JOHN BUCHAN Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
ALEXANDER POPE When Eric sat out, I told myself I have to do more.
DERRICK BERRY I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electroly...
VICTORIA FINLAY When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave sc...
UNKNOWN Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who h...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.
PEARL STRACHAN HURD Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh...
CHLOE THURLOW Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental ...
EMMA PAUL Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her...
EMMA PAUL Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They ...
LORI HANDELAND Liars, hypocrites and mosquitoes destroyed more souls than all the dictators
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK New levels bring new devils, more favours means more haters
BISHOP T. D. JAKES I want a system that doesn't have an agency that knows more about you than you are willing to tell y...
JOHN LINDER This group is a little better than the Devils.
JASON MUZZATTI Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.
JOHN DONNE Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak
JOHN DONNE Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of ...
RICHARD RODGERS When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against childr...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless — pictures tell any sto...
WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
ANN HOOD More Than Words, Volume 2
DEBBIE MACOMBER SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak.
JOHN DONNE . . . most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.
M. F. K. FISHER You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.
DAVID LEVITHAN Silence is more eloquent than words.
THOMAS CARLYLE Silence is more eloquent than words
THOMAS CARLYLE Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.
SHANNON L. ALDER Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me', said some idiot who,
1. Di...
OREO QUEEN Words don’t take you anywhere, at the most they aid in a mental projection; it’s the experience ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Many confuse things with their names. This is a mistake. A name is only a word and a word will never...
ROSELYNN CANNES, FALLEN Souls of poets dead and gone, / What Elysium have ye known, / Happy field or mossy cavern, / Choicer...
JOHN KEATS But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer...
CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.
LEMONY SNICKET Good words cool more than cold water.
JOHN RAY A picture says more than a thousands words, but which words are these?
TAEKE DE JONG Under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the Justice Department prosecuted more people for having ...
MATT APUZZO ”Love is more than feelings, it is two souls uniting creating a spiritual bond.” ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I am so grateful. Eric was very loving, very kind, and what better legacy could Eric have?
MARY MOLNAR I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.
JOE DUNTHORNE The wise man reveals more than words spoken.
TOBA BETA Music comes to me more readily than words.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Love is expressed more by deeds than words.
TAPAN GHOSH I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
HUMPHRY DAVY Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say.
INDU MURALIDHARAN We have more shareholders than any time in our history.
BOB FAISS We have more stores in Florida than any other state.
ERIC BLAESING We have more additions on finance than any other section.
JUANITA EDWARDS I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
RALPH WAITE They are not demons, not devils...
Worse than that.
They are people.
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI The fact that a young child would prefer to see donations to our agency rather than [receive] more s...
LAURA GREEN An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
GEORGE ADE An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious...
DANNY KAYE Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phr...
GEORGE ORWELL There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Love is shown more in deeds than in words.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA Her silence should be feared more than her words.
PIPER PAYNE Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in
JOHN SELDEN He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTë No agency is better than its account executives.
MORRIS HITE We have probably more disasters than any place in the country.
JEFF GRANGE Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than...
BARUCH SPINOZA Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than...
BARUCH SPINOZA I think the media has thought a lot more about the Heiden record than I have. Eric has said that it'...
CHAD HEDRICK Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a s...
WILLIAM LAW We're a little more than 40 percent complete. We are where we are because of the difficult times thi...
LEE SOMERSTEIN The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security i...
TIMOTHY NOAH Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything...
DAVID GEST Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN Trust yourself more than you trust the words of others.
TIFFANY L. JACKSON Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What makes more sense in today's world?
Thinking about future, she ruined her present?
Or<...
JAPNEET KAUR Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big pict...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verifie...
MELISSA BEAN I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
WALT DISNEY I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
DWIGHT L. MOODY We have more black births than any other area of the state.
CAROL BRADY
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