…evil fascinates and repels us – it’s a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it…
– John Geddes
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- Best to live and love by the maxim that ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’, but when it’s evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself. – Criss Jami
- Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that. – Lakshya Bharadwaj
- This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. – Dorothy Parker
- Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. – Walker Evans
- He gives me the stare that only men can do. The mouth tightening exasperation stare. – Poppet
- the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror – we all have it – that shadow self – that dark heart… – John Geddes
- Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil. – Amit Abraham
- The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins. – Thomas Jefferson
- She’s had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil. – Agatha Christie
- When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil? – Nick Joaqun
- The purity of intention repels fear. – Toba Beta
- The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a ????on, cannot program it. – Joan Rivers
- Life is like a magnet: success attracts and failure repels. – Ken Poirot
- This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real. – Philip Gourevitch
- Our Positivity repels the external negative energy and attract the positive energy. – Sukant Ratnakar
- The history of a place fascinates me through the echoes and remains you learn alot – DB Shultz
- I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. – Alan Rickman
- Life is kinder to those who love themselves, because love attracts love and light, and repels and dispels darkness. – Shaun Roundy
- Though the cross repels, it also attracts. It possesses a magnetic quality. – Billy Graham
- Be on your guard against the Pride that repels advice, resents reproof, and refuses to own a fault. – ALOE
- The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. – Donna Tartt
- You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion. – Douglas Preston
- If you want to know what the camel stole from your kitchen yesterday, then you shouldn;t slit open its stomach. You should stare into its arsehole. – Jussi AdlerOlsen
- What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! – Leo Tolstoy
- You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes. – Liane Moriarty
- Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark. – Welcome to Nightvale
- Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us. – Isaac Asimov
- In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom. – Harrison Scott Key
- A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight. – Sue Miller
- Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord. – George RR Martin
- Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess– so she strikes our eyes! – Homer
- As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I’m stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really. – Will Advise
- Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist’s only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life. – Isobelle Carmody
- There’s no such thing as an evil race, just evil circumstances that make people do evil things. – Stuart Hill
- It’s not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn’t evil, it’s just incredibly stupid. – Robert Jordan
- To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you. – Debasish Mridha
- Beauty is like the storm. Beauty has its natural motions. A calmness of spirit signals its arrival. Its departure is marked by misery. – Anuradha Bhattacharyya
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- …goodness is not the absence of evil – it’s the light that pushes back the darkness… – John Geddes
- My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy, different guy. – Amit Kalantri