“You are an enchanting person, rather old fashioned for this modern world, but very enchanting and pleasing.” — Shirley Sealy Copy Share Image
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state. — David Miliband Copy Share Image
I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world. — R. Murray Schafer Copy Share Image
The human mind is constructed to always move forward Hanging on to the philosophy of ancient people is a great stumbling block… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people's perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol… — Roger Revelle Copy Share Image
What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“It was all very well being a modern society, but the advent of prosperity and the growth of the towns was a… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Just a decade before, in the wake of the Vietnam War and with his agency’s budget slashed, Stephen Lukasik had appealed to… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter… — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
“Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Due partly to the influence of the Genevan Academy and partly to the Institutes, Calvin’s theological influence was soon felt in various… — Justo L. González Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Secularized young men eagerly entering the modern world with their shorn beards found it in practice frustratingly obdurate and alienating: ‘the kingdom… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“Illicit sex, Marcus, drives at least half the decisions of the modern world, wouldn’t you agree?” — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see a modern world of coalition where it isn't just about two big parties. — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image