The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
I think a lot of these terms, nationalistic things, somebody is an American, or somebody is a Frenchman, or somebody is a… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I took piano lessons when I was a little kid, but even before that, you're singing in the classroom and wherever. Gosh,… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated with them. The ancient… — Tsultrim Allione Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the… — A. E. Waite Copy Share Image
Obstacles become monsters in your head; evil horrible creatures. Obstacles are sometimes good things. Sometimes they just ARE - not characterized as… — Sameer Gadhia Copy Share Image
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish… — Horace Copy Share Image
Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together,… — M.C. Sburlea Copy Share Image
The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book… — Morgan Philpot Copy Share Image
A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart...the capacity to see, to feel, and… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“It's foolish to trump up stories about how primitive humans built pyramids, stone henge or other ancient giant structures. The only logical… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Your body is as ancient as the clay of the universe from which it is made; and your feet on the ground… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and… — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment.… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The fear of climatic catastrophes is an ancient one and not unlike our fear of strangers. In the past, people believed that… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
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