An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“This is how the wild calls you: in an impulsive moment of joy, in a timeless connection to awe, in a rebellious… — Kris Franken Copy Share Image
We're coming into a rebirth of the planet. And some cultures have echoed it, such as the Mayans have echoed that, and… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story:… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes Copy Share Image
What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Our DNA does not fade like an ancient parchment; it does not rust in the ground like the sword of a warrior… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies…Fiction is democratic, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part… — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and… — Tim Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the… — Stacey Levine Copy Share Image
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While… — Sting Copy Share Image
China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all...… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
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