Pyramids Quotes

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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to… — Margaret Atwood
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids… — Dan Brown
Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt… — Nick Cave
Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like… — Jacques Loeb
Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme. — Bernard Katz
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded… — Henry David Thoreau
They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and… — Anna Louise Strong
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or… — D. H. Lawrence
The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities… — Walter Bonatti
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved… — Edwin Percy Whipple
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in… — Gustave Eiffel
Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will… — Wassily Kandinsky
If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. — R. Buckminster Fuller
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under… — John Milton
The company was quite hierarchical. I often think it was like a pyramid with Robert at the top and lots of us paying homage to… — Janet Holmes a Court
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits,… — Joseph Prestwich

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