The fundamental issue, when it comes to Europe's future, will be whether and how we manage to transfer the ideals that once… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. — Dennis Price Copy Share Image
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No… — Hugh W. Pinnock Copy Share Image
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
“With the ascension of Charles I to the throne we come at last to the Central Period of English History (not to… — W.C. Sellar Copy Share Image
I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“The same source that tipped us off about her and Wu at Kvarnen says that she used to hang out with a… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“In the 18th century, a revolution in thought, known as the Enlightenment, dragged us away from the superstition and brutality of the… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“There’s a story, in the Bible—” “Not in the Bible,” he interrupted. “Apocryphal. Scholars seem to think it was added in the… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
If anything, todays patterns are beginning to resemble the multi-layered complexities of the high middle ages, and not simply as played out… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“The middle ages did not care much for alphabetical order, because they were committed to rational order. To the medieval mind, the… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. — Robert Runcie Copy Share Image
After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
