Ancient Quotes - Page 6

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Back in the day, you'd walk down to a street corner and see some people making a story with a hat in front of them. It's ancient entertainment, ancient storytelling and oral history - now we're doing it on YouTube.

Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.

True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.

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.

There is no new knowledge, all is ancient and infinite

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself poor as soon as this vice got footing among them, though they were possessed of all the riches in the world.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and with rationalism in the modern world. Now the church must engage with the emergence of a postmodern, post- Christian, neo-pagan world.

Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—” “Die?” Carter suggested.

I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where God says before you were formed in the womb, I knew you, and so for my first time in public life, I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.