The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. — Sulla Copy Share Image
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible… — Bill Vaughan 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
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Loyalty saves us from the self-advantaging compromising of important relations - such as friendship, marital and professional commitments, group memberships, and so… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. Piper smelled exotic spices and blooming roses. She heard distant… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
People don't understand this: Ideas are important, but they're not essential. What's essential and important is the execution of the idea. Everyone… — John Landis Copy Share Image
The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. — Confucius Copy Share Image
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence. — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest... — Charles Tennyson Turner Copy Share Image
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
