Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the pious formula, into which life flows when it reproduces its… — Thomas Mann Mythology by Christopher Dell Copy Share Image
“Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. — Jean Danielou Copy Share Image
We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of… — George Weinberg Copy Share Image
People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The myth of the first world is that development is wealth and technology progress. It is all rubbish. It means that you… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It… — William Galston Copy Share Image
Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
“Greater skill is needed to create a myth than it is to awkwardly present the truth subjectively, or raw form. It doesn't… — VD Copy Share Image
“I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art,… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth -… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How… — Angela Braly Copy Share Image
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the… — David Bryant Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
It's so important to keep moving and don't buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel like as long as… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
