The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
“General..behold the future of weaponry." "What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?" "It's..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!" "It's..what?” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite… — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was… — Manly Hall 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
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
I have a huge interest in ancient Egyptian times and the mummies and the kings and all that. — Brad Marchand Copy Share Image
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a hostile frown, "and, moreover, I… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
