#ancient

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#dreams #freighted #memories #more #mountains

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#appears #belief #dangerous #decisive #human

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy. ↗

— James Monroe

#example #find #gigantic #growth #happy

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.' ↗

— Andrew Motion

#i #know #now #places #soon

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#back #bible #dates #found #hebrew

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#ancient rome #better #considered #dictate #foolish

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. ↗

— Walter Pater

#ancient #attempt #century #certain #christianity

After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#ancient #because #exactly #fields #like

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#contemporary #eclectic #europe #mother #ranged