A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel… — William E. Conway, Jr Copy Share Image
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. — Confucius Copy Share Image
No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama… — David Frawley Copy Share Image
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The causal body is the part of you that lives forever. It is ancient and complicated. It has lived through countless lives… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies,… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I am when the Chinese, who know everything, build a house, they consult the precepts of an ancient science, Feng Shui, which… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Russia is an ancient country with historical, profound traditions and a very powerful moral foundation. And this foundation is a love for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked… — George Wald Copy Share Image
TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It's such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There's… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
“Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial. Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There's a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do… — Wayne D. Dosick Copy Share Image
The human mind is constructed to always move forward Hanging on to the philosophy of ancient people is a great stumbling block… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
You probably won't remember me. I'm probably ancient history. I'm one of the chosen few who went ahead and fell for you.… — Jann Arden Copy Share Image
Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A lot of church music really inspired me. A lot of ancient music that's made for God. If you get really into… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
She’s special. We used to unleash her on ancient battlefields just to see soldiers chop their best friends into pieces before falling… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,'… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
