Top 1200 Dark Ages Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!

I love 'Drake and Josh.' It's supposed to have a demographic of ages 9-14, but really, it's 9-84. There is no demographic.

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

I spent ages learning to take photos, which was a lot of fun, and I think it really helped readers get excited about the recipes.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

I lost a lot of homeboys growing up, a lot of family, at early ages.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

In my lab, we're finding that psychological stress actually ages cells, which can be seen when you measure the wearing down of the tips of the chromosomes, those telomeres.

Nearly 30,000 fans turned out to support the tribute match and provide one of the best atmospheres at the ground for ages. I was so happy to be part of it.

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

I have a secret passion for horse riding. I haven't done it for ages, but I used to have a horse. I love it; it's one of my favourite things.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

What I want is to be well-respected around all ages and all around the world.

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner’s lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.

You're only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.

During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.

Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.