Baneful Quotes

#1. Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

Zebulon Pike

#2. I knew by experience and by observing many of my friends the baneful, destructive effect which participation in a war has on almost every man.
(from 'The Specter of Alexander Wolf')

Gaito Gazdanov

#3. If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.

Herman Melville

#4. In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.

Francis Parkman

#5. History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

George Washington

#6. Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Democritus

#7. Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

George Washington

#8. What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#9. I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

George Washington

#10. Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence,

Jon Meacham

#11. Come gather 'round hardy men of the steppes and listen to my tale of heroes bold and friendships fast and the Tyrant of Icenwind Dale of a band of friends by trick or by deed bred legends for the bard the baneful pride of the one poor wretch and the horror of the Crystal Shard.

R.A. Salvatore

#12. Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.

Jens Peter Jacobsen

#13. an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.

Martin Luther

#14. Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

Stephen Grellet

#15. If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

Zhuangzi

#16. Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

Oscar Wilde

#17. Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.

Felix Dennis

#18. I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to score against Curtis Joseph. I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.

Ron Tugnutt

#19. It is a must to excel in the area God has called us.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#21. It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.

Alex Prager

#22. We have a very real God with a very real presence.

Beth Moore

#23. Oh no, Raphael, please don't leave me," Magnus said in a monotone. "Where would I be without the light of your sweet smile? If you go, I will throw myself upon the ground and weep."
"Will you?" asked Raphael, raising one thin eyebrow. "Because if you do, I will stay and watch the show.

Cassandra Clare

#24. You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them ... but still move on without them.

Mandy Hale

#25. In love! She wafted through her day like a woman with a concussion.

Junot Diaz

#26. You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too
even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

Mitch Albom

#27. If truth be told, I ofttimes wonder how Stannis ever got that ugly daughter of his. He goes to his marriage bed like a man marching to a battlefield, with a firm look in his eyes and a determination to do his duty.

George R R Martin

#28. I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.

King Edward VIII

#29. No carbs" her mother called after her as she went into the dressing room "And no butter"
"I know you stole me from my real parents" Min called back. "They'd let me eat butter

Jennifer Crusie

#30. Because the reward is worth the risk.

Susan Mallery