Ancient Quotes · Page 82

Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the…

— Christopher McDowell

Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't…

— Marian Keyes

... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart.

— Samuel Florman

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient…

— Peter York

My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to…

— Teresa Bloomingdale

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of…

— Frank Herbert

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom,…

— John Adams

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize…

— James Risen

And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to…

— Cormac McCarthy

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

The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question…

— Carl Jung

Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and…

— Bill Maher

Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a…

— Ayn Rand

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the…

— Simon Greenleaf

The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for…

— Terence McKenna

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every…

— Frederic Bastiat

The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their…

— Jack Kerouac

What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can…

— Nawal El Saadawi

With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by…

— Luc de Clapiers

I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and…

— Anonymous

“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by…

— John Stuart Mill

I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create…

— Richard Rodriguez

We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by…

— Luc de Clapiers