Quotes About Banishing

#1. Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. it was a conscious effort.

Mary E. Pearson

#3. Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.

Olli Jalonen

#4. Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

William Cowper

#5. Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

Joseph Addison

#6. The thoughts haunted him. He hated them: they robbed him of his peace; they were alien, neither possible nor desirable. Still, he welcomed them: the only alternative- banishing Bertha from his mind-seemed inconceivable.

Irvin D. Yalom

#7. Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.

Joshua Reynolds

#8. By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.

Wayne Dyer

#9. Blossom time, drunk together, banishing spring sorrow;
drunk, we broke off flowering limbs, counters for our rounds of wine.
Suddenly I remembered my old friend, gone to the edge of the sky:
by my reckoning, today he must have reached Liang-chou.

Bai Juyi

#10. My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Having fun?" said George.
"Yes, Mr Lane," said Dinkesh. "Kenny has just flown out of the window."
"That's nice," said George, banishing from his mind the thought that children as young as Kenny and Dinkesh would be daft enough to take drugs in their bedrooms.

Mark Gorton

#12. It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value by banishing doubt. All great dead painters basically have this one person, this expert who has the metaphysical power to grant a seal of authenticity.

Daniel Kehlmann

#13. It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

Winston Churchill

#14. Banishing the love song, people discovered what else there was to sing about.

Greil Marcus

#15. All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.

Jim Crace

#16. Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.

Stendhal

#17. Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick - then it's personal. The bad guy isn't just the "bad guy" anymore, he's the BAD GUY!

Michael J. Sullivan

#18. To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

C.S. Lewis

#19. What?" I whispered, suspicious, still fighting my flare of hormones. Or, more precisely, whoremones. That's

Penny Reid

#20. Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted

Amit Abraham

#21. Reincarnation do you know this word??
No?
Check out the book "Don't touch this book" by Jan Van Helsing and you will find the answer!

Deyth Banger

#22. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

Edward Coke

#23. Remaining poor in spirit, combined with a first love passion for Jesus are the keys God created to anchor us to the center of His work.

Bill Johnson

#24. I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

Aaron Klug

#25. For 15 years of my life I smoked, I drank, I used to do drugs ... but during that time, I never once thought I was going to die. But the second I set foot on a stairmaster -the second- I am sure my heart is gonna explode and blood is gonna spray out of my nose.

Marc Maron

#26. When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests you befriend anyone who has mentioned you in their posts. It then asks to access your e-mail account so you can connect with anyone with whom you regularly correspond.

Ethan Zuckerman

#27. Another Chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved five times. "I think you had better put the Indians on wheels," he said sardonically, "and you can run them about whenever you wish.

Dee Brown

#28. And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 4:2-3)

Anonymous

#29. It may be because Southerners are very much like Frenchmen in that they must talk; and not only must they talk, but they must express their opinions.

James Weldon Johnson

#30. And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.

PJ Harvey

#31. I'm the leader of the SNP. I think you would expect me to say I would vote SNP in whatever constituency I lived in.

Nicola Sturgeon