Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum. — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles? — Frederick Lenz 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
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. — Confucius 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
“Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings we read ancient weather—storms, sunlight, and temperatures, the growing seasons of… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however… — John Stott Copy Share Image
A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments,… — William James Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
We must have a government which is not only a guarantor of public order and safety and which preserves the right of… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woman.… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning… — Michael Brune Copy Share Image
It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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