Quotes of: Ancient-greeks Keyword

It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust.

Freddy and Fredericka

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Madeleine L'Engle

My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.

Nick Moran

Yesterday is as ancient as a millennia ago, because both are forever out of reach.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

Ancient Child

The urge to draw near to the female silhouette resided deep in the ancient center of a man...

In Need of a Good Wife

Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside.

The Social Worker

Tigerclaw stared in disbelief. Was the life of his son dependent on an ancient medicine cat and an arrogant kittypet?

Tigerclaw's Fury

Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

The Deeper Meaning of Liff

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

Self-Reliance

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

Olympia Brown

Ancient wisdom collides with modern crises, equipping believers to image Christ in a world entranced with salvific knock-offs.

Owen Strachan

It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story.

Richard Gist

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Thomas Hobbes

If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.

Theodore William Richards

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

Karl Marx

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

Michael Mandelbaum

Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. -Chiron

Rick Riordan

Oh dear…then they must already be on the march! We have to hurry and get to the Hamblings…before nightfall!’ - Phillip Celeste from Curse of Ancient Shadows

Rod Tyson