All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“This tale grew in the telling, until it became a history of the Great War of the Ring and included many glimpses… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It's a real thing. It's not… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed… — Mary-Rose MacColl Copy Share Image
Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“per capita incomes scarcely changed; the new production was absorbed in supporting an increasing population. This was not economic growth. The economy… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
“A Manifesto of Modern Taoism Students: Are you a Taoist? Qiguang Zhao: I refuse to be named. Ancient Taoist thinkers and their… — Qiguang Zhao Copy Share Image
No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that we have to remember is that Egypt ancient history is so vast, and there are… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
I was already in my early twenties, but I looked much younger because I was fresh-faced and, well, short. So I did… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date.… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Oh, we solved that long ago!” Rubedo chuckled. “I believe that was Greengallows, Henrik Greengallows? Is that right, my love? Ancient history… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Plato, however, in the “Laws,” classes the Celts among the races who are drunken and combative, and much barbarity is attributed to… — T.W. Rolleston Copy Share Image
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews. We know very well-known fixed places like Auschwitz,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It was one of those words that tended to brook no further questioning, and Harmigan had applied his very best evocation of… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Many women have identified with the grimace and the rage of Medusa. May Sarton identifies the Medusa-face as the face of her… — Miriam Robbins Dexter Copy Share Image
“Bob,” she said, “offerings burned in the mortal world appear on this altar, right?” Bob frowned uncomfortably, like he wasn’t ready for… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“Hate often separates those who ought to aid one another, since they are tending toward the same goal, and sympathy binds men… — Guglielmo Ferrero Copy Share Image
“The trouble with ancient history is that, as far as I can tell, the vast majority of it took place a hell… — John Powell Copy Share Image
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The shutdown may have temporarily sidetracked the Republicans, yet Obamacare threatens much worse for the Democrats. By 2014 the former will be… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Life is not a forest. We were only influenced by ancient history and a group of idiots still rule us !! Hesham… — Hesham Nebr Copy Share Image
If the people of the United States come to Iran and see its ancient history and nature of Iran, and the people… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” "That’s true,” Paul… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
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