Banquetings Quotes

#1. Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

Matteo Renzi

#2. When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.

Robert Ley

#3. It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

Henry James

#4. Steve turned to us again, looking so dang enthusastic that I wondered how much coffee he'd had this morning. "So, you kids want to be big stars, eh?"
God, no!" I said spewing crumbs. "No way!"
Oddly, this seemed to throw a petite wrench into the convo.

James Patterson

#5. Normal is all relative.

Alethea Kontis

#6. had no name for the color blue but managed rather well without it - we stayed for a long part of our history culturally, not biologically, color blind.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. I'm working my way toward divinity.

Bette Midler

#8. A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#9. Desire gives pain to the heart from which springs both hope and worry.
Out of suspicion I make mistakes that grow into lasting ills. And from my stubborn delusions come a thousand deceits, which later I accept as damage I've done.

Laurel Corona

#10. We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Joyce Meyer