Codices Quotes & Sayings

They could play married, both happy and unhappy, like no other acting couple have ever played married. They're the Lunts of the American marriage movie. — Jeanine Basinger

May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble."
"Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done ... "
"It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift. — Veronica Roth

I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play. — James Rado

Using this novel method, doctors could treat female patients without violating the honor of her family. — Jack Weatherford

Around us the city glittered in shades of orange and silver, like a paste jewel in a tinfoil crown. — Alexis Hall

If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection. — Umar

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with. — Chelsea Clinton

The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false beliefs, and faulty judgments, which are the causes of so much hardship and handicap. To heal the body one turns to the practitioner of the art of healing the body, but to heal the soul there is no doctor to turn to, and each of us is left to become that doctor unto himself. Yet, this need not stop us from exhorting others to imitate us in the godly art, in the forlorn hope that they might transform themselves into better citizens for Athens and better companions for us. — Neel Burton

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language. — Gary Jennings

Like the burning of the ancient library at Alexandria or the supremely ignorant incineration of stacks of invaluable Mayan codices, the loss of knowledge we are experiencing as the last of the traditional elders pass from this physical plane of existence without heirs to their knowledge- as well as the very environment in which sacred plants grow- is a tragedy occurring right now as you read these lines, one that could well be beyond redemption. — Jonathon Miller Weisberger

In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I. — Ingmar Bergman

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived. — David Roberts

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place. — Michael Medved

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

That was the last time I saw Carol. I didn't want to be told I had to be a woman. What I wanted from her was the mystery to a solution. — Jennifer Finney Boylan