Panathenaic Procession Quotes & Sayings

I smell guilt. There is a stench of guilt upon the air.
I see you all, whole and healthy, with your powers intact - such prompt appearances! - and I ask myself ... why did this band of wizards never come to the aid of their master, to whom they swore eternal loyalty? And I answer myself, they must have believed me broken, they thought I was gone. They slipped back among my enemies, and they pleaded innocence, and ignorance, and bewitchment ...
And then I ask myself, but how could they have believed I would not rise again? They, who knew the steps I took, long ago, to guard myself against mortal death? They, who had seen proofs of the immensity of my power in the times when I was mightier than any wizard living? And I answer myself, perhaps they believed a still greater power could exist, one that could vanquish even Lord Voldemort ... perhaps they now pay allegiance to another ... — J.K. Rowling

With human beings, a natural death was a death with dignity. But animals were innocents, and as their stewards, people owed them mercy. — Dean Koontz

On the balance beam, sometimes it's really hard to stay on if you're having some rough times. — Liang Chow

If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge. — Nelson Mandela

I think I like 'em better like that ... divinely dull ... just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession. — Edith Wharton

Being absolutely sure that one is right is part of growing up, and so is realizing, years later, that the truth might be more nuanced. — Rebecca Mead

You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those. — William Shakespeare