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Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It`s a real thing. It`s not always referring to ancient history.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.

Habits change into character.

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

I love playing in Japan! It's always like being in the ancient past and the future at the same time. And the fans sing along to every word.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

I met a travler from an ancient land.

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts!

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.