this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It's next to impossible to slip off the radar in today's world. Sometimes the world comes looking for you all guns blazing,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
“This is the grand strategy of satan in today's modern world - to make man believe that he does not exist. Christians… — Fr. Jose Francisco Syquia Copy Share Image
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the… — Graham Hough Copy Share Image
“Technology couldn't revert, but humans could, and they did with startling ease and rapidity when the trappings of the modern world melted… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1968, committed suicide in 1971. Two years earlier, in 1969, another great… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
Recently I stood in the desert, far out side of L. A., and watched the sun set on a circus tent from… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Edmund Burke said “there is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“When a soul in sin, under the impetus of grace, turns to God, there is penance; but when a soul in sin… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
“What are you doing?” “Coming to pick you up in a little bit,” he said. I loved it when he took charge.… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I have a great longing for a particular sort of world in which one can work and breathe and sometimes be insanely… — Anna Seghers Copy Share Image
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan,… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his… — Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned Copy Share Image
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in… — Patricia Hewitt Copy Share Image
“Think about cuisine: Most probably, your great-grandparents never encountered a market offering Chinese dumplings, Bombay lime pickle, lemongrass curry, tiramisu, and gnocci,… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“We are neighbors in a modern world where proximity is relative and the threshold to our hearts moves outside time and space.” — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
