You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“-’Tell me’, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one’? -’A happy one, of course.’ -’Wrong. A… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
There's a reason why trainspotters are not girls, there's a reason why there's the myth of the slightly autistic male genius, there's… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Essentially, not only do we believe in this myth of 'de-risking', but it has become the one overriding goal; de-risking above growth,… — Andreas Antonopoulos Copy Share Image
If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People believe that if a hijra curses you, bad things will happen. That God Ram blessed hijras with this power, that our… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We have seen that there are two misconceptions involved in the myth that memory is a thing. One is that memory is… — Kenneth L. Higbee Copy Share Image
All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life. Or some kind of energy or antigravity. It's… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this… — Daniel O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Myth, in any culture, is the working out of present anxieties against a backdrop of a time (and sometimes place) removed from… — M. G. DuPree Copy Share Image
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem -… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship?… — Pamala Oslie Copy Share Image
“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to… — Philip French Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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![“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far…” quote by Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/oliver-stone-1812_american-life_if-we-americans-are-a-strong-people-a-un_2148721.jpg)
