#demon

One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#big #challenges #demonstrate #economic #economic prosperity

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#collapse #demons #end #happen #i

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#gratitude #mediocrity #moderation #sign #you

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#i #made #mistakes #my own #own

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#burning #demonic #get #heretics #need

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries. ↗

— Pete Coors

#benefits #breweries #demonstrate #fly #gays

The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats. ↗

— John C. Stennis

#aircraft #around #cooperation #defending #demonstrating

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#done #first #first time #little #releases

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#could #demons #destroyed #fascinated #his