Bantered Quotes

#1. What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Theodor Adorno

#2. Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see composition and lighting and do not see their civilization being pissed upon, we are in trouble.

Dennis Prager

#3. In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

Rumi

#4. Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Jean Paul

#5. If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

Al Pacino

#6. I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#7. Past misdeeds must only serve as a reference point in calm conversation about lessons learned or actions that taught us to behave better. They should never be bantered about with sarcasm, anger, or nastiness.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#8. Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.

Seamus Heaney

#9. All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

Michael Johnson

#10. E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.

Steve Crocker

#11. hold out your right hand, palm up. Imagine a 2-inch-tall version of yourself in a military uniform, with a whip in one hand and a gun in the other, stomping around in your palm, shrieking deeply personal insults and commanding you to lose weight. This is the Dictator.

Martha N. Beck

#12. We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Maria Shriver

#13. Victims have succumbed to defeat, and their spirit has been conquered and crushed. We survivors are fearless gladiators, and our spirit can never be broken.

Robert Palasciano

#14. We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.

Pedro Martinez