Ancient Quotes · Page 14

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family…

— Benvenuto Cellini

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.

— Jonathan Haidt

“The trouble with ancient history is that, as far as I can tell, the vast majority of it took place a hell…

— John Powell

...we are custodians of deep and ancient thresholds. In the human face you see that potential and the miracle of undying possibility.

— John O'Donohue

Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.

— Nirmala Srivastava

I think we have a lot to learn from ancient cultures and different tribes.

— Baron Vaughn

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the…

— William Penn

“These are all combinations of ancient design wisdom and the latest technology.”

— Nick Rosen

I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of…

— Colin McEnroe

Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things…

— Camille Paglia

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

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

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient…

— Harold Rosenberg

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner…

— Horace Walpole

I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous.…

— Julie Kagawa

“This is how the wild calls you: in an impulsive moment of joy, in a timeless connection to awe, in a rebellious…

— Kris Franken

And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are…

— Augusten Burroughs

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

The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon.…

— William Golding

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's…

— Eric Metaxas

I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and…

— Sara Gruen

In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very…

— Meher Baba

One reason why people find applying the Bible to work so difficult is that the world of Scriptures seems so distant from…

— David Kim

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

— William Congreve

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

— Voltaire

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane.

— Karen Marie Moning

Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

— Ovid

Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.

— Harun Yahya

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

— Plutarch

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

— Peter Diamandis

Oh, God, puppy dog eyes. From a six-foot-five ancient Viking vampire.

— Charlaine Harris

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

— Tacitus

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

— Sidney Sheldon

Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves.

— Frederick Lenz

These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.

— Elaine Pagels

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

— Andrew Motion

In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.

— Gautama Buddha