The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments,… — William James Copy Share Image
Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed… — William Penn Copy Share Image
At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to… — George Edmund Street Copy Share Image
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat.… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient… — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you had an ‘anam cara,’ (soul friend), your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
