#wick

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#affairs #business #daily #obscene #papers

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#desire #even #how #kill #live

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading. ↗

— Elihu Root

#century #cruelty #degrading #lower #lower animals

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction. ↗

— Charles Taze Russell

#age #bible #brought #declares #destroy

Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#know #like #never #them #wickets

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. ↗

— Sophocles

#chance #good #good man #man #never

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever. ↗

— Stijn Streuvels

#after #began #crying #day #ever

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#distresses #expected #grieves #may #revival

All things truly wicked start from innocence. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#innocence #start #things #truly #wicked

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked. ↗

— Queen Christina

#fools #more #than #wicked