If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between… — Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the… — Angela Merici Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
The young mouse's eyes snapped open, clear and bright. He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. He… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image