![He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.](/assets/img/quote-photos/he-who-sups-with-the-devil-had-better-have-a-long-spoon-the-devilry-of-modernity.jpg)
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gone-away ideas long
Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable. Barbara Ehrenreich
gone-away gone ritual
The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. Ray Bradbury
gone-away love-of-my-life feelings
Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life. Dave Grohl
gone-away sun meanness
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. Cormac McCarthy
gone-away interesting long
He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company. Peter L. Berger
gone-away needs stones
The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there. Mick Taylor
gone-away credit unions
Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty. Suze Orman
gone-away gone gray
The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor. Rosie O'Donnell
interesting film-and-television fandoms
For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me. Carrie Brownstein
interesting cases ufo
UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable. Carl Sagan
interesting looks endeavor
The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting. Bill Bryson
interesting likes persons
If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person. Bette Davis
interesting not-good-enough saint
I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting. Bernadette Devlin
interesting president reason
Something that is interesting about the current polling is that, as you watch Hillary's [Clinton] numbers fluctuate, part of the reason that they are is because the Obama coalition, younger voters, African-American voters, Latino voters, they're not showing up in as large a number for her as they did for President [Barack] Obama. Bill Burton
interesting way anything-goes
Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way. Beck
interesting down-and pay
If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting. Diane von Furstenberg
interesting challenges important
The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system. David Minge
longer political situation
The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable, Edmund Stoiber
longer minutes normal sort takes wear
I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things. Brittany Snow
longest
I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth. Bikram Choudhury
long understanding victory
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. C. S. Lewis
long enough term
I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work. Cecelia Ahern
long tree savannah
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?
long life-is hopefully
Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring. Bethenny Frankel
long surfing competing
I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old. Bethany Hamilton
long-ago years ideas
Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract. Benoit Mandelbrot