Inscribed Quotes

74 quotes by 66 authors

There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes,… — Augusto Roa Bastos
Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society. — Jacques Attali
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murderâ€”immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouseâ€”humanity. — Octave Mirbeau
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES. — Izaak Walton
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. — Plutarch
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the… — George Bernard Shaw
I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is… — Unknown Author
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way… — Krzysztof Kieslowski
When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk… — Hermann Hesse
The Holy Spirit canâ€™t remind you of something you never read which is why itâ€™s important to memorize scripture. When you have Bible verses inscribed… — David Jeremiah
Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of… — George W. Bush
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a… — Andre Malraux
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their… — Joseph de Maistre
Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has… — Al Yankovic
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what… — Tadao Ando
Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides… — Ralph Ellison
All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature. — Charles Baudelaire
Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you. — David Whyte
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll… — Carl Schurz

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