Banqueted Quotes & Sayings

Betrayal does so many different things to people. — Trai Byers

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it. — Andrew Dickson White

If I'm not comfortable, I just look awkward. — Gia Coppola

I endured all our hardships as if they had been luxuries: I made light of scurvy, banqueted off train-oil, and met that cold for which there is no language framed, and which might be a new element; or which, rather, had seemed in that long night like the vast void of ether beyond the uttermost star, where was neither air nor light nor heat, but only bitter negation and emptiness. I was hardly conscious of my body; I was only a concentrated search in myself. — Harriet Prescott Spofford

Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them. — Paulo Coelho

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people. — Laurie Garrett

So die as though your funeral
Ushered you through the doors that led
Into a stately banquet hall
Where heroes banqueted. — Alan Seeger

It is impossible to separate any power except a square into 2 powers with the same exponent. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain — Pierre De Fermat

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them. — William Dampier

Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl. — Natalie Dormer

Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow. It is not a language like Russian or Chinese but it is a language nonetheless, and it is older than the forest. The crows speak it; the dog speaks it; the tiger speaks it, and so do the men
some more fluently than others. — John Vaillant

Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such a sorry end, was a person of undoubted, if evil genius. It is true that in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, he found a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends. — William L. Shirer

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet. — Pope Gregory I

All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I will rise when he calls my name, no more sorrow, no more pain, I will rise on eagles wings before my God; fall on my knees, and rise, I will rise. — Chris Tomlin