“In old times, life moved at a gentler rhythm, whereas modern times seem to demand constant speed and instant gratification.” — Susan Shrestha Copy Share Image
“One thing is clear: cancer is not unique to humans. And neither is it a product of our modern times.” — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message. — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing. — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It is an honor for me to accept the position of men's artistic director for Louis Vuitton. I find the heritage and… — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“The Christians’ “exaggerated fear of sex” continued until modern times, whereas Islamdom remained more sex-friendly until, again, modern times. Even the more… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more and more frequently, I was watching people… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
“The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“Why Mr. Dickens, in his biography of that particular moment, preferred to focus on the adventures of the orphan parish child, Oliver… — Peter David Copy Share Image
Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“We try to improve the conditions of the race by means of good air, free sunlight, wholesome water, and hideous bare buildings… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“This view was prevalent in Japan in the sixth century A.D., when Buddhism first reached that country. The Government, being in doubt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is true that technical progress in modern times has linked men together like a complex nervous system. The means of travel… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Billy Slick doesn’t sound… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“When our mother is seen only as the one-dimensional Mary of modern times, instead of the great dual force of life and… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“My life has taught me that true spiritual insight can come about only through direct experience, the way a severe burn can… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
“What, then, can Shakespearean tragedy, on this brief view, tell us about human time in an eternal world? It offers imagery of… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“But all of a sudden the scene changed; it was the memory, no longer of old impressions but of an old desire,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Prior to modern times, the term 'Islamic' (Islami in Arabic) was almost never used to define the provenance, status, or substance of… — Sherman A. Jackson Copy Share Image
“The great bourgeois revolutions of modern times offered an ideology of sweeping political reconstitution, but in reality they merely certified the social… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“And in the background, the constant, high, whining mewl of local disapproval. Within the first few months of her return, to her… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“When the Planters fled from Haiti, they established coffee farms or cafetales, as part of their newly formed Plantation. Generally, coffee profits… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“I was aware that it was unusual, in modern times, for me not to hate Aaron or resent him for all of… — Denise Weeks Copy Share Image
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science… — George Washington Copy Share Image
