Top 1200 Dark Ages Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the only bit of spare space available and, in some cases, the only place where there was enough light to see anything. Even then, it was often so dark that I couldn't tell which gender my subject was (not that I particularly cared) and too dark, before the era of autofocus, to focus. I had to find a light (or carry a torch) and pre-focus.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your Blood'. This dark descent into the broken mind of Timothy Robert Shively will send chills down your back. Every word rings true, and every page is dark with menace. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up right now. You can thank me later.

Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.

I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.

There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.

Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?

I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies.

Music is like wine, it ages beautifully - and if you spend enough time you can just sit there and listen to it entirely differently.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

My instinct is to surround myself with the company of wise, witty, wonderful women, and I have a great bank of female friends of all ages.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.

Beauty works when one is in her teens. Between the ages 55 and 60, it's the technique and the personality of the dancer that captivates the audience.

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

Between the ages of 30 and 40 was the time when both my spirit and body were young and powerful and I could do anything!

Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.

I feel that when you have a passion and you are real, you last throughout the ages and you're able to reincarnate your artistry numerous times.

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

I grew up, from ages 8 to 18, watching reruns of 'Star Trek' with my dad and my mom when they got home from work.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.