I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“... the site still radiated a powerful aura that whispered of past glories too ancient for me to comprehend.” — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
It Is Said Some Lives Are Linked Across Time Connected By Ancient Calling That Echoes Through The ages… — Paritoshik Sharma 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
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart. — Rudyard Kipling 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
“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.” — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge... — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The story, it's really important to The Ancient One that Doctor Strange does cut it because The Ancient One needs a successor,… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
If I venture into the water in a bikini, the sight of my melanin-deficient Michigan belly might attract beluga whales. Sure, I… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life, We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“...There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all… — Kate Constable Copy Share Image
Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were. — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world. — Richard Allen 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
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
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. — Guru Nanak 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
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
“The ancient city, like all human society, had ranks, distinctions, and inequalities.” — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Copy Share Image
By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained. — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion. — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential. — Caroline Paul Copy Share Image
Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus. — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
