In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were. — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.” — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
“Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?” — Petronius Copy Share Image
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot… — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her… — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7? You're in luck-you already have one. Your body! Our… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
“The ancient city, like all human society, had ranks, distinctions, and inequalities.” — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Copy Share Image
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve? — Du Fu Copy Share Image
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image