Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Sweep picking is when the right hand sweeps down and up the strings in succession. But when you do sweep picking, one… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance? — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and sufferings in this world, but that there should be law and order,… — Victor Gollancz Copy Share Image
Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
“There is surely nothing other than the purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after… — Rati Tsiteladze Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of… — William James Copy Share Image
We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom -… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
