Gena Showalter Quotes

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Senator H. Alexander Smith of New Jersey spent the day wrestling with his conscience. He won.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

I did not clash with the National Party. I clashed with my conscience. And in the end, conscience wins.

... sufficient conscience to bother him, but not sufficient to keep him straight.

With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.