I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.
the holiest place on earth is where an ancient hatred has become apresent love.
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
Do I feel ancient to you now?" he murmered. "Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?" Her eyes were already glowing green, and her full lips parted. "No, you don't feel too ancient." Her voice was husky. "Or too different. You f...
If America upholds God's eternal standards and follows His unchanging ways, then it will be blessed with His favor...His protection...His prosperity....But if America should depart from the ways of God, if it should disregard His eternal standards, t...
According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words...
Bill: At my challenge, by the ancient laws of combat, we are met at this chosen ground, to settle for good and all who holds sway over the five points: us natives, born rightwise to this fine land, or the foreign hordes defiling it. Crowd: Yeah. Prie...
Yupa: In the midst of my travels, I heard of an ominous rumor... It said that a monster from the ancient world had been excavated from beneath the city of Pejite where it had been sleeping. Mito: A monster from the ancient world? Yupa: It's a God War...
Lady Eboshi: Stay here. Help me kill the Forest Spirit, Ashitaka. Prince Ashitaka: You would do that? Kill the very heart of the forest? Lady Eboshi: Without that ancient god, the animals here would be nothing but dumb beasts once again. Once the for...
TEIRESIAS: I tell you, king, this man, this murderer (whom you have long declared you are in search of, indicting him in threatening proclamation as murderer of Laius)- he is here. In name he is a stranger among citizens but soon he will be shown to ...
Tragedy's language stresses that whatever is within us is obscure, many faceted, impossible to see. Performance gave this question of what is within a physical force. The spectators were far away from the performers, on that hill above the theatre. A...
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Magic is an ancient practice that has power over superstitious mind.
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
