Best Ancient Times Quotes
56 Ancient Times quotes by 52 unique authors
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Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to…
— Eckhart Tolle
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In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!
— Laozi
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Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of…
— William Whewell
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İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place of…
— Gerard De Nerval
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Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing,…
— Jacques Maritain
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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since…
— Walter Russell Mead
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In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.
— Tom Turner
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How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
— Samuel Johnson
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Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the…
— Gerald of Wales
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Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.
— Nichiren
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
— Terry Pratchett
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The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was…
— Richard Stallman
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Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are…
— William Butler Yeats
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My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and…
— Nick Hornby
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Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a…
— George Orwell
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Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures…
— William Blake
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Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. Piper smelled exotic spices and blooming roses. She heard distant music and happy…
— Rick Riordan
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There is a coldness to the Clave, it is true. We are dust and shadows. But you are like the heroes of ancient times, like…
— Cassandra Clare
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And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
— William Blake
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Spying has always gone on since ancient times.
— Vladimir Putin
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the…
— Orson F. Whitney
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