Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date.… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch--" he commanded. "I'm not a witch, I'm… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
My film is actually very critical of the level of French we're using back home. To have an immigrant from an ancient… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That culture is a a critical resource the organization ignores. Competely mystifying. The organization continues to act as if culture were dark… — Grant David McCracken Copy Share Image
Otter is the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species and its vulnerability to man's seemingly insatiable… — Virginia McKenna Copy Share Image
Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life, We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“...There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all… — Kate Constable Copy Share Image
I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life… — Jeanne Achterberg Copy Share Image
“Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which… — Paul Foster Case Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“They drove up Third Avenue so that they might see the famous Stuyvesant pear tree on the corner of Thirteenth Street. Again… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Movies you pay for - well, sometimes they throw some ads at the beginning now - but generally you pay for ads.… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
