Ancient Quotes - Page 9

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

Only through the inner channels can a person even hope to approach the ancient wisdoms. The outer works are thus simply a doorway to the hidden, spiritual things of life.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.

Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.

I met a travler from an ancient land.

Dharma is an ancient word for truth.

The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

I thought it was strange that I was called after a woman who killed herself in ancient literature. You just don't call your kid Dido and send her to school. But it's great for me now. It's just another thing that makes me stand out.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

We as black have to remind ourselves that we are a great people and we come from a great lineage. How can we say that we were Kings and Queens during ancient civilization but then turn around and say, 'we don't have privilege.' Who said that? What is that based on? Is that based on the white man's definition of privilege and what this system is showing us? Yes, of course.

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.