Top 14 Ancient Writings Quotes
#1. In evil times, when public virtue has left the earth, ancient writings are of little account, and no one cares to disturb the silence of the libraries.
Joseph-Arthur De Gobineau
#2. Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
Ned Rorem
#3. A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.
Richard Engel
#4. The ancient biblical writings spoke of the husband and wife becoming "one flesh." That did not mean that individuals would lose their identity; it meant that they would enter into each other's lives in a deep and intimate way.
Gary Chapman
#5. Julian smiled what I thought of as the smile of an only son, someone who believed he would always get what he wanted.
Emma Cline
#7. Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?" - and whose writings offered novel perspectives for considering that question (much more perspective-offering than rigorous argument!)
Philip Kitcher
#8. Europe's history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and
Shashi Tharoor
#9. Fate doesn't guarantee us a happy ending. We're not promised to be together no matter what. But in dimension after dimension, world after world, fate gives us a chance. Our destiny isn't some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance.
Claudia Gray
#11. A friend of mine once told me a month is about how long it takes to begin seeing another person as another person instead of a character making a cameo appearance in your life
Katie Heaney
#12. We, the heirs of Saint Patrick, we who kept alive the Christian faith and the writings of ancient Rome when most of the world had sunk under the barbarians, we who gave the Saxons their education are to be taught a lesson in Christianity by the English?
Edward Rutherfurd
#13. If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.
Nachman Of Breslov
#14. Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.
Max Brooks
