When I was young, I couldnt imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have… — Nick Moran Copy Share Image
According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but… — Grazia Deledda Copy Share Image
Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Another form of prayer, called cataphatic, honors and reverences images and feelings and goes through them to God. This form of prayer… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, whence came creation? The gods are later than this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the staggeringly secret… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you look at ancient Chinese culture, and depictions of it, the relationship between people and nature was very different. It almost… — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Kaylee and Nash are like those rocks that ancient cave people used to make fire. Bang them together, and you get sparks."… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty… — John Peter Zenger Copy Share Image
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one… — Plato Copy Share Image
The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
…the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by… — Thomas Jerome Baker Copy Share Image
The world has always been this way. I am sure in the mystery world of Egypt, ancient Atlantis, you pick a cosmos… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms,… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient,… — Normandi Ellis Copy Share Image
Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to… — Sarah Parcak 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
I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
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