Best Banished Sayings
89 Banished quotes by 83 unique authors
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I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine…
— Taslima Nasrin
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual…
— Petrarch
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That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the…
— John Podhoretz
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Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that…
— Ian Somerhalder
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The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred…
— John Shelby Spong
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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because…
— Joseph Story
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there…
— Voltaire
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
— George Washington
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
— Cormac McCarthy
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In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have…
— Marguerite Duras
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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting…
— Mark Twain
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We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of…
— Robertson Davies
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The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming…
— Paul Verlaine
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The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished…
— Bill Bryson
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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like…
— Franz Kafka
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About a hundred or so years before you were born, a Dark-Hunter made the mistake of falling in love with his Talpina. Unfortunately for the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No…
— Michael Crichton
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I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium,…
— Salvador Dali
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But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You…
— R C Sproul
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And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a…
— Emily Bronte
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There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes…
— Terry Pratchett
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In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to…
— Kim Harrison
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Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades,…
— Doris Lessing
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