Top 1200 Tale Of Two Cities Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.

Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale.

New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there.

It's no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit recently, and in Russia, they completely believe they own this tale. And in Italy, they feel it absolutely is part of who they are. There is a timeless web to it.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

'Carl Sagan: A Life,' though a riveting tale, tells as much about the all-too-human feelings of jealousy and resentment as it does about the individual who inspired them.

By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

There are two separate scripts for 'Mockingjay' parts one and two. It's definitely one story, but there are two totally distinct and separate scripts.

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

The Long Red Road is a story about alcoholism and dysfunction and tragic tale of a man who's trying to drink himself to death on an Indian reservation in Dakota. It was written for me, so it's something I would love to do.

Love me some oysters. I always try them in different countries and cities.

Chicago is one of my favorite cities because it has great sand, weather and an enthusiastic crowd.

If we had an immigration policy, sanctuary cities would not be the symptom that manifests itself.

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

Sadly, many people in our biggest cities are at the mercy of industrial food.

When I start a new novel, I often write 'test chapters' in different tenses and from different points of view in order to figure out which is best to tell the tale.

During the wintertime in cold cities, you sometimes need a party to break through the melancholy.

Terrorists bombard complete cities, such as Fallujah, Baghdad, innocent women and children.

N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.

If Queen Amezan and Queen Penthesilea could somehow meet in real life, they would recognize each other as sister Amazons. Two tales, two storytellers, two sites far apart in time and place, and yet one common tradition of women who made love and war.

The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

When it came to 'Concussion,' I found myself with so many threads to weave. So integral to the whistle-blower's tale were spirituality, the cost of hero-worshipping, what it means to be an American, and just how dangerous the truth can be.

When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch's Tale' and 'Inner Sanctum' on the radio. I went to see 'Frankenstein' in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me.

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.

We're going to do a lot of work on the inner cities, I have great people lined up to help.

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.

I will not support a federal budget that cuts funds for sanctuary cities, states, or universities.

Canadian tours are big and difficult, because of the large spaces between cities.

All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.

Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities.

As a writer, the ideal job is the one that allows you time and mental space away from it. Teaching seemed to me like the obvious choice - those summers off, you know - but my experience may serve as a cautionary tale.

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

Ladakhi life is very fine-tuned with nature. We don't want it to become like cities.

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.

I grew up in Matsue, in Shimane prefecture, which is one of the smallest cities in Japan.

Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah.

Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set in Civil War Spain, where the girl dies at the end. It's not easy.

I stand with President Trump in the fight to make sanctuary cities pay for the border wall.