Quotes by Pyramids Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better. John Maynard Keynes pyramidsearthquakeswar Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid. John Taylor Gatto egyptianpyramidsschool People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. John Wanamaker pyramidstimefunny According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art and whatever else, which is, utter horseshit: The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness. Maslow's pyramid seemed to imply I was less human than other people, and most people seemed to agree with him. John Green pyramidsphilosophyart Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe. Joy Adamson naturepyramidsmen I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest. Justin Zackham obsessedwallpyramids I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand. Karl Pilkington pyramidsgamesbelieve The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny. Karl Pilkington tinydesignpyramids The Chichen Itza is just a pyramid with four sides, with stairs on each side leading to some kind of bungalow on the top. Karl Pilkington fourpyramidssides All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed. Kate Braverman moonpyramidswriting Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs. Kendrick Lamar write-your-ownpyramidswriting I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs Kendrick Lamar slave-shipspyramidswriting All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them. Leonardo da Vinci causeseyepyramids If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids. Lindsey Graham pyramidsheartcivilization Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood. Lord Byron egyptpyramidsdark He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of balancing inverted pyramids, going to sea in sieves, and successfully performing other kindred feats impossible to a faithless and unbelieving generation. Lucas Malet pyramidsseanumbers the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language. Lydia Davis confusedlonelypyramids Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will. Lyndon B. Johnson pyramidslatinamerica You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. Margaret Atwood pyramidsviewspeople People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. Marion D. Hanks pyramidspeopleneeds«12345678910»
