“...sola est quies, mecum ruina cuncta si video abruta; mecum omnia abeant. Trahere cum pereas, libet. (...the only calm for me -… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to… — Rozalia Galiyeva Copy Share Image
Most fans probably wouldn't understand that because they're not in bands, but when there's too many cooks in the kitchen it can… — Dino Cazares Copy Share Image
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
What sense does it make to build a castle of illusions? We can live in it for a short time, but when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in;… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime,… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love. The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“in a city where everything seemed to be trying to stand still for ever on the ruins of something else—except the water,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a keen medievalist and like going around museums and ruins and finding out about the people and local culture. I'm… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
