Eleusinian Mysteries Quotes

#1. I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

James Anthony Froude

#2. I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

Toussaint Louverture

#3. The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

Robert H. Schuller

#4. To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Akhenaton

#5. Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Peter Davison

#6. Lou Reed drove Honda scooters these days, and I was a hell of a lot closer to the wild side than him.

Warren Moore

#7. In extraordinary times, the ordinary takes on a glow and wonder all of its own

Mike A. Lancaster

#8. With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of Hercules to boil his turnips, but openly declared that there were no gods at all.

Athenagoras Of Athens

#9. Although I am nine months pregnant, although I have had plenty of time to dream, I have not really considered the specifics of this child. I have thought of this daughter only in terms of what she will be able to do for the daughter I already have.

Jodi Picoult

#10. Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

Robert Frost

#11. As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Gautama Buddha

#12. My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.

Jack McDevitt

#13. Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the walls will crumble, the trees die and rot, the gardens revert to weeds and grass, because all beauty will outlive the human intelligence which records, enjoys and celebrates it.

P.D. James

#14. The best way to lighten your mood is to lift the weight of the world off of your shoulders.

Rob Liano

#15. Some of us will admit to a simple fascination with the inner world for its own sake, a fascination with no further goal than the thrill of discovery, the pleasure of engaging the mysterious, dark ground of our own nature.

Sandra Lee Dennis

#16. Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful.

Assata Shakur

#17. I think are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding

William Golding