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Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer's most ancient task. — David Burr Gerrard

You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices. — Helene Cardona

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. — Confucius

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream. — Charles Kingsley

There are two parts to the equation: feel good + take action. The ancient Sufi proverb says; Trust in Allah, but first tie your camel to a post. — Andrew Matthews

If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. ANCIENT JEWISH PROVERB — Daniel Silva

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. — Mikheil Saakashvili

Late have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late I have loved you! You were within, but I was without. — Augustine Of Hippo

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled. — George Papandreou

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver

I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back's not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train. — Jayde Scott

In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world. — Orna Ross

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is not a dress. This is a sacred robe of the ancient psychedelic monks. — Noel Fielding

There's an ancient philosophical joke that's much subtler than it seems. Question: Why is the Universe here? Answer: Where else would it be? — Arthur C. Clarke

The great dragon was thrown out - the ancient serpent ... the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. Revelation 12:9 — Beth Moore

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. — Ruth Ozeki

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle. — Robert Harris

I don't go in for ancient wisdom
I don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy — Tim Minchin

America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin — H.W. Brands

Manon Blackbeak awoke to the sighing of leaves, the distant call of wary birds, and the reek of loam and ancient wood. She — Sarah J. Maas

The pair sat in silence: the ancient god from across the oceans who had retired, the human host of an ancient god visiting from the heavens. — Adam Christopher

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments. — Howard Shore

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. — Voltaire

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark

A very ancient and fish-like smell. — William Shakespeare

Sixty Royal Cubits probably correspond to a one week (i.e., ten days) on the ancient Egyptian calendar. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. — Charles Bukowski

The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before. — Frederick Lenz

The ceiling was a mural showing some ancient hero making a deal with a two-faced celestial being. — Brian McClellan

Of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beings
as men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races. — Toba Beta

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,
a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
a man at 100, and some species of
tortoises not until 150 years. — Leonard Hayflick

An ancient noise, like a fox bark, makes an attempt at the edges of my brain. — Emma Healey

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine

You think ancient soul-eating demons are terrifying? Try a run-in with Renn's crazy ex-girlfriend if you want a real scare." (July Henry) — Megan Applegate

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium — Horace

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew). — Arthur Koestler

Many hidden truths are often unobserved, not invisible. — Matthew A. Petti

Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? — Ray Bradbury

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity. — Jane Hirshfield

And besides, we lovers fear everything — Ovid

That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him. — Robin Hobb

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else. — Abhijit Naskar

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking. — George Sarton

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television. — Tariq Ali

On sunny days of summer,
I am indeed the butterfly;
And like the ancient drummer,
I rhythm straight towards the sky ... — Stephan Attia

Spanish rain,
A maiden's dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancholy kills
A girl's caress. — Roman Payne

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients. — Rita Mae Brown

The original ancient Greek meaning of the word planet was simply wanderer, — Mike Brown

Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.
-Chiron — Rick Riordan

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me. — Mary Carolyn Davies

The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again. — Ruth Ozeki

the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. — Paul Fleischman

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. — William Penn

The distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos. — James Henry Breasted

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson

Damn it, Honor, what do I do with an Ancient mother-in-law who thinks I'm a bug?" One that had infested the life of Caliane's beloved son. — Nalini Singh

Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside. — Carla H. Krueger

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient. — Paul Beatty

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre. — Terry A. O'Neal

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern. — Shereen El Feki

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame. — Dante Alighieri

I don't need to be ancient to be worth something. — Aimee Carter

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard. — Vera Miles

Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below. — Gerald R. Stanek

Death is something ancient, but it comes fresh to each of us. — Ivan Turgenev

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless. — Alice Hoffman

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? — Will Rogers

Their yellow eyes seemed to hold ancient knowledge, as if their memories of want and drought and survival were so much more than Maria's. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. — Frank Herbert

The deeper question ... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform ... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge ... — Robert Bly

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart. — Jonathan Sacks

Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture. — John H. Walton

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts. — Patricia Briggs

The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore. — Mason Cooley

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment? — Jean Said Makdisi

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern. — Charles Spurgeon

Can't you see, Amber? Losing you would be like a stake to my heart. — Jayde Scott

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. — Helena Bonham Carter

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau

Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it. — Luis Marques

He was six years old this time, and ancient. — Red Tash

the ancient saying that force outdoes inferiors while gentility outdoes superiors. — Liezi

I'd say it was a pleasure rowing with you, only it wasn't. — Jennifer McKeithen

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment. — David Mitchell

Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries. — Charlie Campbell

The future has an ancient heart. — Carlo Levi

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required. — W. H. Auden

Oklahoma holds ancient power within its red dirt, — P.C. Cast

To face a real daemon, you must first look inwards and conquer your own darkness. — Luis Marques

In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education. — Barack Obama

Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn. — Nichiren

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. — Sophie Swetchine

True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship. — Robert Graves

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ... — Susan Sontag