Top 1200 Dark Ages Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

I've read 'Autobiography of a Yogi' at different ages and interpret something new each time.

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

It's like you run into this dark tunnel, trusting that somewhere there's another end to it where you're going to come out. And there's a point in the middle where it's just dark. There's no light from where you came in and there's no light at the other end; all you can do is keep running. And then you start to see a little light, and a little more light, and then, bam! You're out in the sun.

Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior. Please let me see the sunshine one more time. When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? And when I die, dear lord in heaven, please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground.

Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

People are starting companies at young ages. They fail fast, learn a lot, and keep going.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while.

Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

What I love about my audience is it's extremely diverse as far as the ethnicities and the ages that show up.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

I'm a very shy person and find it difficult to ask for work even if I know somebody for ages.

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

Part of what makes Minneapolis such a vibrant place to live and work is that we have active residents of all ages.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I never made enemies on a set. I never was a bad girl on a set; I always considered films a really sacred space, so when I had my problems, I had them very much away from the film community.

My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

The members of the Mystery school, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of darkness.

I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind me and I'll even be afraid to turn around, but then if I do get the courage to turn around, I'll just be scared that whatever was there has just jumped over to the other side of me.

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.

I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.