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In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west. -- Kit Williams
Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas. -- Huangbo Xiyun
The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow. -- Kit Williams
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. -- Andrew Marvell
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door. -- Adela Florence Nicolson
You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. -- David Lloyd
I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot. -- Kit Williams
I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me. -- Alexander McCall Smith
The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years. -- Kit Williams
I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'. -- Orlando Bloom
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred. -- Harold Brodkey
The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity. -- Ashwin Sanghi
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king. -- Annie Besant
As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot. -- Kit Williams
I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form. -- Kit Williams
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. -- Emma Goldman
In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet. -- Les Dawson
There are certain things producers ask you to do, and when I was starting out, I said yes to everything. I was asked, for 'Quo Vadis,' to drive a chariot. I said, 'Oh yes. I'm licenced for all vehicles.' Two days later, I was sitting in this dustbin with two very aggressive horses. I didn't stay in it for long. -- Christopher Lee
Execution is the chariot of genius. -- William Blake
Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'? -- James Weldon Johnson
The moon in her chariot of pearl -- Oscar Wilde
Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along. -- Anacreon
How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul. -- Emily Dickinson
I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. -- Ingmar Bergman
I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me. -- Van Morrison
The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad. -- Richard Arnold Epstein
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! -- Edward Young
You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right. -- Santosh Kalwar
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns. -- Thomas Brooks
The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise! -- Aesop
If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses. -- Nas
Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot. -- Baal Shem Tov
We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order. -- John Vanbrugh
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy. -- Ouida
The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer. -- Charles Spurgeon
Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot. -- Don Rickles
Tyson," I said "We're turning around!" Going the wrong way?" he asked. Always," I grumbled, but I steered the chariot towards the stands. -- Rick Riordan
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! -- Francis Bacon
Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. -- George Canning
The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot. -- Swami Vivekananda
Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire. -- William Blake
Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates -- Gautama Buddha
The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Benjamin Franklin
Leo: Rainbows. Very macho. Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi. Leo: Rainbows, ponies... Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot. -- Rick Riordan
Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air. -- Erasmus Darwin
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.] -- Ovid
In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree. -- Thomas Paine
I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live. -- Nicolaus Zinzendorf
Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot. -- Margot Datz
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