Ancient Quotes
Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.
Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.
Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.
Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.
Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.
To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing
Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.
I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.
Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.
All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.
Everything comes from your own heart. This is what one ancient called bringing out the family treasure.
The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.
She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.
There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.
China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.