“I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Greater skill is needed to create a myth than it is to awkwardly present the truth subjectively, or raw form. It doesn't… — VD Copy Share Image
The myth of the first world is that development is wealth and technology progress. It is all rubbish. It means that you… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
“Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%)… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
“The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important… — James Christensen Copy Share Image
In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
It's so important to keep moving and don't buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel like as long as… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the… — David Bryant Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth -… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How… — Angela Braly Copy Share Image
Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
“Well, someone told someone and someone told someone else, you know how it is, that if you filled jugs with water and… — Richard Yañez Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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