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Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. -- George Sterling
I'm not trying to project any persona. Often people don't know where to put me. I don't fit comfortably under banners, and that's fine. I'm not worried about not making sense to people. That's probably my best asset. -- Riz Ahmed
Apart from these, let all others remain to guard our glorious banners. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. -- Erich Segal
On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.' -- Malala Yousafzai
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. -- John Steinbeck
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' -- Ernestine Rose
Costumes are all about identifying which force in a conflict you're on. That's where banners and flags came from - so people rushing into battle knew who to follow and who was on their side. -- Jim Lee
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. -- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. -- Karl Marx
In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know? -- Yoko Ono
Friends come and go but banners hang forever. -- Kobe Bryant
If great content is the hero, then banners are the villain. -- Michael Brenner
It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners. -- Caroline Pratt
Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce. -- George R. R. Martin
Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom. -- Nelson Mandela
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice. -- Mason Cooley
In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood. -- Henry Van Dyke
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. -- Thomas Gray
Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts. -- George Santayana
We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners. -- G.K. Chesterton
The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry! -- Thomas Campbell
The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow. -- Margaret Thatcher
People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies. -- Bobby Knight
Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought. -- Mikhail Bakunin
We must wave our banners even higher and belt out our voices even stronger and be unified as people. We're going to make it through this! -- Michael Jackson
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom. -- George Washington
When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us. -- James Shirley
...recent events should make the student wary of state rights banners, especially when raised by conservative men against national administrations not conspicuously devoted to the interests of the propertied. -- Charles G. Sellers
When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions. -- Chili Davis
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. -- Camille Paglia
If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the officers are angry, it means that the men are weary. -- Sun Tzu
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements. -- Lord Byron
I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears. -- Chris Hardwick

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