Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.” — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid,… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
How ironic that returning to a raw and ancient form of worship is now seen as new and even cutting edge. We… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine… — Laozi Copy Share Image
At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso 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
I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history. — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest. — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Raft Point is among the greatest examples of ancient indigenous art we know of. — John Torode Copy Share Image
You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Almost all the people who lived in Atlantis meditated and had powerful psychic skills. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
