Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.
Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
The shadows of twilight grow, And the tiger’s ancient fierceness In my veins begins to flow.
The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue.
Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.
And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.
Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.
If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's loved is described or matters.