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  • Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough, just in recent years really, and as a result of that recent breakthrough, we've had movies like 300, Road to Perdition, and A History of Violence, that very few people realize were based on comic books and graphic novels. It's very important to make that differentiation.

    Book   Years   People  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.

    Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”
  • The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!

    Believe   Men   Roots  
    Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.5, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
  • Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

    Pain   Cities   People  
  • I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

    Real   Apples   Way  
  • I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.

    Nice   Land   Insanity  
    Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.10, Macmillan
  • If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition; if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.

    Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.170
  • For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.

    James Elroy Flecker, James Hogg (1976). “The Leysin Version of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan”
  • Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

    Horse   Two   Want  
    D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.135, Xist Publishing
  • Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

  • I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas.

    Men   Catholic   Earth  
    John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.219
  • Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

    Love   Truth   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.755, Harvard University Press
  • The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

    Leadership   Mean   Men  
    Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”
  • ... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

    "Parents still tell kids to save money. That's really obsolete". Interview with Nastassia Arendse, citizen.co.za. March 8, 2017.
  • A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

  • It's not about the money for me.

  • Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

    Soul   Bait   Hook  
    Epictetus (1890). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”
  • I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

  • For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

    Lying   Deceit   Way  
    "Notes from underground, White nights, The dream of a ridiculous man, and selections from The House of the dead". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1961.
  • Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.

    Adventure   Men   Anxiety  
  • Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

    Father   Son   Law  
    "Fictional character: John Rooney". "Road to Perdition", www.imdb.com. 2002.
  • .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.

    Running   Winter   Men  
    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

    Love   Soul   Chaos  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 90
  • To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

    Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.139
  • The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.

    People   Giving   World  
    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can be administered but by the Holy Ghost... There is no Authority civil or religious: there can be no legitimate Government but what is administered by this Holy Ghost. There can be no salvation without it. All, without it is Rebellion and Perdition, or in more orthodox words Damnation.

    John Adams' letter to Benjamin Rush (December 21, 1809), as quoted in "No, Mr. Beck, John Adams Did Not Think Governments Must Be Administered by the Holy Ghost" by Chris Rodda, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.
  • Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

  • The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

    Light   Envy   Excellence  
    George F. Gilder (2013). “The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy”, p.155, Encounter Books
  • Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

    Men   Guilt   Lasts  
    Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.42
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