There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating… — Nevill Drury Copy Share Image
So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting,… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction… — Doug Graham Copy Share Image
The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
“I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as I do most other ancient books, in which there is some… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
What will happen to the spirit of this ancient dreaming land without the great mobs of kangaroos bounding across the song lines,… — Sue Arnold Copy Share Image
I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
When I was young, I couldnt imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have… — Nick Moran Copy Share Image
I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty… — John Peter Zenger Copy Share Image
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one… — Plato Copy Share Image
“People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Kaylee and Nash are like those rocks that ancient cave people used to make fire. Bang them together, and you get sparks."… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
If you look at ancient Chinese culture, and depictions of it, the relationship between people and nature was very different. It almost… — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but… — Grazia Deledda Copy Share Image
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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