Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
[The Golden Notebook] was not a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I believe that a woman should always remain a woman and nothing feminine should be alien to her. At the same time,… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
For ages the world has been living by the stupidity of an old Roman adage that says if you want peace, prepare… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain… — Daphne Sheldrick Copy Share Image
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of… — Colin McEnroe Copy Share Image
Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important… — James Christensen Copy Share Image
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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