Famous Antiquity Quotes

#1. The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.

Thomas Paine

#2. I'm not crying for you. I'm crying for me. Do you know how long it took me to find you? Do you know how many awful dates I've been on? I can't" - she is breathless now - "I can't join Match again. I just can't.

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. This is not mathematics; this is theology.

Paul Gordan

#4. I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.

Marquis De Sade

#5. Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. I now understand when people say the world stands still. Everything stops, yet I am aware of the activity around us.

Julia Ibbotson

#7. There was also another funny feeling that he had for the elder sister. For some unfathomable reason, he was attracted to her knees. He had always felt like biting them!

Nicholas Chong

#8. Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.

Meir Soloveichik

#9. The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

Madame De Stael

#10. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

Ramakrishna

#11. Genius is perseverance in disguise.

Mike Newlin

#12. If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a disease. That is why it is very important to keep your power level high, just to be a happy human being.

Frederick Lenz

#13. The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#14. I'm going to hit you as hard as I can regardless of whether you touch my gloves or not.

Holly Holm