Betokened Quotes

#1. Everything about her room betokened wealth; but she had put away the French novels, and had placed a Bible on a little table, not quite hidden, behind her own seat.

Anthony Trollope

#2. Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

Jean Ingelow

#3. Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

Herman Melville

#4. Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

William Shakespeare

#5. He's definitely not the man I thought he was a few months ago. He's ... just ... good. And goddamn ... that's attractive.

Kim Holden

#6. [Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.

Albert Einstein

#7. Would come to me and ask me how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have to do to tell us He didn't allow something.

Marilynne Robinson

#8. I was fortunate enough to see and handle and take in everything I could while I was playing.

Shaquille O'Neal

#9. The more conceited members of the race think in terms of an endless ascent - or promotion ad infinitum. I would point out that, sooner or later, man must reach his level of life-incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

#10. The hand has the richest articulation of space.

Eduardo Chillida

#11. . . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their names
written across the sky as ogham threads are traced
between the stars

John Daniel Thieme

#12. Want to change history? Luke made a stab at humor.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#13. Maybe I should do this for y-" (Samantha)
"No, I'm cooking. If you want to be helpful, you can bring me my wine. I poured us both a glass." (Mortimer)
"But-"
"No," he insisted, pushing her toward the door. "In you go. I'm the man. I get to barbecue while you stand around and look cute.

Lynsay Sands

#14. What most entrepreneurs don't understand is that it isn't the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.

Jay Samit

#15. Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.

Jeb Bush

#16. When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

Adyashanti

#17. It is always pleasant to divulge a secret under dramatic circumstances.

Thomas Burnett Swann

#18. Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.

Ma Huateng

#19. I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.

Paulo Coelho