Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight!… — Burn Gorman Copy Share Image
“Carved on the temple [at Delphi] were the exhortations "Know yourself" and "Nothing too much," mottoes with a similar meaning: You are… — Barry B. Powell Copy Share Image
I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
It is a myth that man in his natural state is genuinely seeking God. Men do seek God. But they do not… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Myths and legends, either about divinities or the formation and history of peoples and races, began to look like pictures on a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it comes to the supernatural, there's no… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The lie was that we believed that we believed all people were created equal! What made us think we were this great… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Myths tell us what those like us have done, can do, should do. Without myths to lead the way, we hesitate to… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“This is the myth of the Dark Ages, the idea that history and progress pretty much stopped for a millennium after the… — Ehsan Masood Copy Share Image
It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular myth, werewolves myth, werewolves are born, not made. No matter how many times they bite someone, that person will… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the… — R. W. Apple Copy Share Image
I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
![“Carved on the temple [at Delphi] were the exhortations "Know yourself" and "Nothing too much," mottoes with a similar meaning: You are only human, so don't try more than you are able (or you will pay the price). A recurring theme in Greek myth is the man or woman who loses sight of human…” quote by Barry B. Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c4/barry-b-powell-61147_greek-myth_carved-on-the-temple-at-delphi-were-the_982498.jpg)
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