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Quotes About Halls

Too much of our history will seem to have taken place in the halls of capitols, where the accusers have mostly been guilty, and so have borne witness to nothing.
~ Wendell Berry
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
~ Lenny Bruce
We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.
~ Barbara Mikulski
I heard the trailing garments of the NightSweep through her marble halls.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.
~ John Hart
It's supposed to be very beautiful, the Citadel,' Oak says. 'It is beautiful, Wren?' When the light went through the ice of the castle, it made rainbows that danced along its cold halls. You could almost see through the walls, as though the whole place was one large, cloudy window. When I was brought to it for the first time, I thought it was like living inside a sparkling diamond. 'It's not,' I say. 'It's an ugly place.
~ Holly Black
They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.
~ Preston Brooks
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
I'm sorrowed to see the time spent in the echoing halls of criminal investigation have done nothing to curb your native vulgarity." They
~ Craig Johnson
The God's been walking through our halls again: Brothers have been having visions. What's Vartra been saying to you?
~ Unknown
I turned all my firewood to cedar so that its scent would fill my halls each night.
~ Madeline Miller
The nymphs wafted around me. Their smothered laughter drifted down the halls. At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers, who would have bragged and fought and hunted down my wolves. But of course that was never a real danger. Sons were not punished.
~ Madeline Miller
This was no slouchy prince of wine halls and debauchery, as Easterners were said to be.
~ Madeline Miller
I had scarcely known true intelligence - in all of Oceanos' halls most of what passed as cleverness was only archness and spite. Hermes' mind was a thousand times sharper and more swift. It shone like light upon the waves, dazzling to blindness .
~ Madeline Miller
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.
~ Ayn Rand, Anthem
I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.
~ Malcolm Wallop
What is legacy but the most empty and mediocre substitute for what we have. Steel and money and fancy concert halls don't give you immortality.
~ Matt Haig
The Chelsea was like a doll's house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe. I wandered the halls seeking its spirits, dead or alive.
~ Patti Smith
The words of the prophetsAre written on the subway wallsAnd tenement hallsAnd whispered in the sounds of silence.
~ Paul Simon