Ptolemaic Quotes

#1. A good-sized Ptolemaic vessel could carry three hundred tons of wheat down the river. At least two such ships made the trip daily - with wheat, barley, lentils - to feed Alexandria alone.

Stacy Schiff

#2. Historically and geographically speaking, Gnosticism developed at the same time and in the same places as early Christianity, with which it was, and remained, entwined - Palestine, Syria, Samaria, and Anatolia, and later, Ptolemaic Egypt.

Stephan A. Hoeller

#3. Shandy. Have you begun your Ptolemaic

Charlotte MacLeod

#4. The Ptolemaic system has been compared to that of Soviet Russia; it stands among the most closely controlled economies in history.

Stacy Schiff

#5. It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

Philip Pullman

#6. I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant exponents of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Middle Ages.

Philip Kitcher

#7. If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him.

Alfonso X Of Castile

#8. The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

Adam Garcia

#9. Even the wettest violence, in the end, is cooked down to the stuff of court cases; a ream of paper, a few exhibits, a dozen ... witnesses. The world looks away, and why not?

William Landay

#10. Bernice III was the first queen of Egypt to rule without a consort in over a millennium. Though her reign was brief, her example inspired her descendant Cleopatra to rule alone.

Kris Waldherr

#11. Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.

Anthony Kiedis

#12. Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

E. M. Forster

#13. Give me an honest laugher.

Walter Scott

#14. Christians have no greater ally than Israel.

Ted Cruz

#15. VIRTUES ARE THE PRECIOUS VESSELS WORTHY OF THE WORLD'S REVERENCE, AND THE BEST WORD FOR VIRTUES IS LOVE.

Frances Angelina