for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not…

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,…

— Washington Irving

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it,…

— Anonymous

“It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for…

— Franz Kafka

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

— Ambrose Bierce

End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.

— Billy Graham

The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism…

— Homi K. Bhabha

The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz.,…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the Christian era,…

— Samuel Sharpe

Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence…

— Jeremiah Denton

Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive, or giving…

— Ryan Reynolds

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

— Horace

The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to…

— Elizabeth Grosz

In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His…

— Bart D. Ehrman