It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I took piano lessons when I was a little kid, but even before that, you're singing in the classroom and wherever. Gosh,… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I think a lot of these terms, nationalistic things, somebody is an American, or somebody is a Frenchman, or somebody is a… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . .… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love That fights to keep us rooted in the earth, But also urges us… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of… — Daniel B. Wallace Copy Share Image
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D.… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to… — Teresa Bloomingdale Copy Share Image
It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“In one form or another, it was one of the first implements created by ancient people to give voice to the mysteries… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of… — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned.… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
June [Hillary] is a very strong influence in my life and particularly now in my ancient years there is no doubt at… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image