Ancient Quote by Shan Sa Download Open image “I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.” — Shan Sa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Athens China Like Philosopher Philosophy Poet Poetry Would
I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
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I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer. — Shantel VanSanten Copy Share Image
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
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“Inside its crumbling walls the house is riddled with bullet holes, and in its garden only the crimson dahlias still hold their heads high.… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“She died a few days later, and her death buried once and for all the intrigues between the Precious Wife, the Gracious Wife, and… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“I am terrified by the dizzying pleasure of it: I am both here and over there; I am be and I am no longer… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“I held in my hand an invisible sword that sliced through every illusion. The sharpness of the blade gave me its icy and dazzling… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“I reply with a letter as brief as his: 'My brother, after my first battle the only thing I now worship is the sun,… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“. . . I have witnessed the strength of our people driven from their own land. The tenacious march south is like a silent… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“S Novom je godinom započeo novi kozmički ciklus. Neka noćne more iz prošlosti zauvijek nestanu!” — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“I had lost some of my naivete and gained strength. These women with their pointless scheming could not contain me, and I watched the volatile world of the gynaeceum with a detached eye. The Forbidden City had buried my youth, and in the monastery, I had died and come back to life. Friends, enemies and mistresses had all disappeared. I… — Shan Sa Copy Share
I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
“Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere. — Confucius Copy Share
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears. I'd seen many things in his eyes in the time that I'd known him: lust, amusement, sympathy, mockery, caution, fury. But I had never seen this. Hope. Jericho Barrons had hope, and I was the reason… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves. Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing Respect and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost… — Helen Garner Copy Share
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your… — Laozi Copy Share
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and… — Anne Rice Copy Share
![“Inside its crumbling walls the house is riddled with bullet holes, and in its garden only the crimson dahlias still hold their heads high. Jing is lying on a chaise longue [sic] playing with his bird. 'I thought you were in prison.' He looks up, his eyes filled with hate and desire. 'You are my…” quote by Shan Sa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/042/shan-sa-13713_quote_inside-its-crumbling-walls-the-house-is_13990.jpg)
