Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.
Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
THE WOMAN WAS GOING TO KILL HIM, and not because she was stronger and more vicious than he was. Which, if he thought about it, she was. He’d never ripped a man’s throat out with his teeth, and he was damned impressed that Gwen had. She’d made the Lords of the Underworld look like marshmallows.
A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious. ’ (Acheron)
Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.
Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.
The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.
A primary campaign can get very intense and times nasty. But it`s never going to be quite as vicious as between-parties rivalry.
We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become.
Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games. . .
I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.
It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.