Your body is as ancient as the clay of the universe from which it is made; and your feet on the ground… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book… — Morgan Philpot Copy Share Image
Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish… — Horace Copy Share Image
Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
May peace reign in all hearts; let us not forget that peace is light. Let us not forget that peace is an… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“When the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico, the desert sand turned to fused green glass. This fact, according to the… — Maxwell Igan Copy Share Image
Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
“It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together,… — M.C. Sburlea Copy Share Image
The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Obstacles become monsters in your head; evil horrible creatures. Obstacles are sometimes good things. Sometimes they just ARE - not characterized as… — Sameer Gadhia Copy Share Image
Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the… — A. E. Waite Copy Share Image
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant… — Maturin Murray Ballou Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid,… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
How ironic that returning to a raw and ancient form of worship is now seen as new and even cutting edge. We… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image