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  • Soulless. Banished. But never forgotten. -- Julie Kagawa
  • I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun. -- William Butler Yeats
  • Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms. All flawless hexagons may melt and break; While you must feel the summer's rage of fire, Beyond this frigid season's empty storms. Banished to bloom, and bear the birds' desire. -- James Wright
  • My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. -- George Washington
  • I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. -- Paul D. Boyer
  • Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. -- Vannevar Bush
  • If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain. -- Chiang Kai-shek
  • Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. -- Susan B. Anthony
  • Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. -- Petrarch
  • In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow! -- Rufus Wainwright
  • 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 they do now. -- Ian Somerhalder
  • You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. -- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
  • We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. -- Herbert Hoover
  • 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 writings of the Christian church. -- John Shelby Spong
  • By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. -- Sextus Propertius
  • I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world. -- George McGovern
  • And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. -- Margaret Cavendish
  • If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it? -- Paul Darrow
  • We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life. -- Jim Bunning
  • There are wonderfully intrinsic moments when life makes sense, and doubts are banished as irrelevant in those moments. Of course, we can't stay in that state. We're not here to be blissed out all the time. -- Huston Smith
  • The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica. -- Frederic William Farrar
  • Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial? -- Jose Rizal
  • What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. -- David Cameron
  • 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 they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. -- Joseph Story
  • The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. -- Max Muller
  • 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 is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. -- Voltaire
  • 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 present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles. -- John Podhoretz
  • During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd. -- John Marshall
  • 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 called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished. -- Taslima Nasrin
  • Elegance and beauty have been banished. -- Yves Saint Laurent
  • I no longer feel banished from myself. -- Harold Pinter
  • I desire to know wherefore I am banished? -- Anne Hutchinson
  • Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing. -- Plotinus
  • When doubt is banished, #รข?? abundance flourishes and anything is possible. -- Wayne Dyer
  • All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being. -- Sri Aurobindo
  • Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice. -- Anne Rice
  • Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. -- Herman Melville
  • God was never created the economy.Men found it after banished from Eden. -- Toba Beta
  • By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. -- Cormac McCarthy
  • As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light. -- Leanna Renee Hieber
  • The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations. -- Anthony Gregory
  • In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen. -- Kohta Hirano
  • My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth. -- Ronald Reagan
  • O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth? -- William Shakespeare
  • The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. -- Karl Barth
  • Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. -- William James
  • When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
  • The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone. -- Erica Jong
  • To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity. -- C. S. Lewis
  • To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on! -- Ben Jonson
  • I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever. -- Helmut Kohl
  • Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life. -- Alan Keyes
  • But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn. -- Anna Akhmatova
  • 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 you noticed that? -- Marguerite Duras
  • We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. -- Herbert Hoover
  • Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand. -- William Butler Yeats
  • Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve. -- William McKinley
  • By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. -- Sextus Propertius
  • The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • [W]hoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven. -- Henry VIII of England
  • New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect. -- Patrice Pavis
  • This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross. -- Harriet Martineau
  • We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture. -- Peter Block
  • I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet. -- Murray Bookchin
  • Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content to seek them by the humbler means of commerce and industry. -- Edward Gibbon
  • Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth. -- Helena Rubinstein
  • Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace. -- Ayn Rand
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