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The moon in her chariot of pearl -- Oscar Wilde
How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul. -- Emily Dickinson
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. -- Andrew Marvell
The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise! -- Aesop
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door. -- Adela Florence Nicolson
I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that. -- Richard Farnsworth
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
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
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 won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body. -- Ginger Rogers
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
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
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
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
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
Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war. -- Wilfred Owen
The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.... Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes. -- Ingmar Bergman
I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots of Fire: "God made me fast and when I run I feel his pleasure." God gave me a love of writing and (I knew) to do it I would feel God's pleasure. -- Randall Wallace
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
Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots. -- William McGregor Paxton
Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict. -- John Milton
Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots. -- William McGregor Paxton
The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old. -- Gautama Buddha
The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good. -- Gautama Buddha
If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots, you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people. -- Confucius
Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em. I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some. Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb... Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones. -- E-40
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons. -- Confucius
People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same. -- Madeline Miller

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