Venturas Bancroft Quotes & Sayings

Fortune helps the brave. — Terence

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government. — Margaret Thatcher

I suspect people are suckers for a prick. I suspect folks just naturally go belly-up for a snob. Folks figure if a guy acts like he's King Tut and everybody else is donkey shit, he must be an aristocrat. — Katherine Dunn

I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious. — Clive Sinclair

I can remember hearing one middle-aged man who sat nearby saying 'Simmer down, boyo' to another older man seated kitty-corner to me across the doorway to one of the hallways extending out from the waiting area, except when I looked up from the book both these men were staring straight ahead, expressionless, with no sign of anyone needing to 'simmer down' in any conceivable way. — David Foster Wallace

Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures. — Martin Luther

The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin. — Saint Francis De Sales

Make a plan that concern your purpose, your calling and describes exactly what should be done every day for your purpose and life mission — Sunday Adelaja

I must do something, Elentiya," Nehemia said, using the name she'd given her on the night Celaena admitted that she was an assassin. "I must find a way to help my people. When does gathering information become a stalemate? When do we act?" Celaena — Sarah J. Maas

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places. — Mason Cooley

And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman! — Michael Buckley

We all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled. — Don DeLillo

This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. — Patrick Rothfuss

In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal