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When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away. — David Morrissey

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge. — Peter V. Rabins

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice. — Elliott Erwitt

The ancient Greeks could laugh at themselves. The Romans could not. That is why France is a civilized society and Spain is not. — John Fowles

So live your life that those who speak ill of you will not be believed. — One Of The Ancient Greeks I'm On A Hunt To Find Which One.

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. — George Lloyd

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason. — Rand Paul

The ancient Greeks had two words for time. The first was chronos. The second was kairos. The — Greg McKeown

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college. — G.H. Hardy

That's what the ancient Greeks thought life was," I said. "A distraction that ends badly. — Elliott James

Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four. — Peter Watts

Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic. — Mark Salling

For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced — Henry A. Giroux

The ancient Greeks who created the magnificent sculptures and structures were the same people who could be utterly cruel and barbaric. — Julia Vickers

In DC Comics, Blue Devil is a superhero who came out of a movie. — Marc Guggenheim

All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks. — Michel Houellebecq

The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right. — Avery Brundage

Scientific discoveries (not theories) are found more and more to fit into the record God has given us in His Word. — Billy Graham

I look like a gay Mormon missionary," he lamented in the mirror. "Pardon me, have you heard the word of the Lord? It's fabulous!" He — T.J. Klune

The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun. — Marion G. Harmon

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 Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. — Stephen Gardiner

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov

I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers. — Friedrich Holderlin

The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. — Henry Fielding

Choose,' she says, reaching out towards him. 'Choose to which of us the apple most belongs... — Emily Hauser

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers. — Vincent Van Gogh

I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous. — Shalom Harlow

Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it. — Sarah Rees Brennan

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks. — Harold Bloom

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston S. Churchill

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance. — Sidney Sheldon

The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing. — Socrates

In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem. — Elie Metchnikoff

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. — Dorothea Brande

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

There is nothing as practical as good theory. - KURT LEWIN — Katherine S. Van Wormer

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