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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
I have always just experimented, and I come from a very ancient, acoustic root. It was very hard to put a finger on me.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.
My father was an Austrian, and he brought some Torahs over to this country, ancient Torahs that were slipped out of Germany.
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.
It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.
Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.
I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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.
I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.
That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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!
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.
I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
I would argue that we're not limited by actual DNA. You can re-create the ancient DNA by looking at the genomes of existing animals.
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.