Ancient Assyrian Quotes

#1. Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching." - From an ancient Assyrian tablet.

Sidney Homer

#2. I wasn't sure I would ever be able to deal with the world. It seemed too big and demanding and there was no fixed syllabus.

Jerry Pinto

#3. Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

Saskia De Brauw

#4. Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.

Zainab Salbi

#5. The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

Walter Pater

#6. [...]dead was dead, but there was still a man in there, one who wanted all the same things I did, though even the simplest seemed out of his reach.

Thea Hayworth

#7. There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.

Arto Lindsay

#8. I am too tired, even to be happy.

Gelindo Bordin

#9. God, an enormous darkness, hung looped over half her sky, an ever-present menace, a cloud waiting to break.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#10. Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

Nicolas Roeg