To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope. — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.' — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us;… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize… — James Risen Copy Share Image
I've been able to dig deeper into awareness of my own sinfulness, and take baby steps toward spiritual healing. I'm able to… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We had an ancient Russian acting coach at my drama school who said the worst offense you could commit was to let… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither… — William Prynne Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
As writers and readers, we're drawn to conflict. It's that ancient theory of plot that's written on the whiteboard during every fiction… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
Delhi is a very maligned city, and deservedly so. Yet there's something about it. It's a secret city, it doesn't hang out… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained. — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman. — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good,… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
“There’s something with these ancient arts. They don’t last for centuries for nothing.” — Peter M. Wayne Copy Share Image
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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