“Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.” — Tim Palmer Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me. — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will. — David Christian Copy Share Image
“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.” — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“The old stories must be learned anew, studied again within the context of a world at odds with itself and only able… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed.… — Gerald McKnight Copy Share Image
“myths and mistruths get thrown around so often they eventually feel familiar and start to sound like the truth.” — Gary Keller Copy Share Image
“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Contrary to some of our great myths, the universe was not created once upon a time, but rather is constantly being created… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“And why does Father want me out there? You do know it’s a myth what they say about virgin sacrifices and dragons,… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries… — Benjamin N. Cardozo 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
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver. No, said Tolkien, they are not. ...just as speech is… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
“We not only do not believe that man is punished for his 'sins,' but emphatically state that there is no such thing… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just… — Hector Avalos Copy Share Image
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.' 'Then why… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Russia has two generals in whom she can confide -Generals Janvier and Fevrier — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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