There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it! — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking. — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some… — Leonard Hayflick Copy Share Image
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it. — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. — John F. Kennedy 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
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast,… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
And this has been man's stupidity - a very ancient one: whenever he gets into difficulty, he changes the word. Change the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
