In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition. — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world. — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
“Inequality in the modern world largely results from the uneven dissemination and adoption of technologies,” — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“If the modern world were a patient in my care...” She shook her head. “I would diagnose it suicidal.” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news. — Kelvin MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Men with wings. Angels of the Apocalypse. Supernatural beings who’ve pulverized the modern world and killed millions, maybe even billions, of people.… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“In our modern world of today, the search for personal satisfaction and fulfilment has become practically universal. It is extraordinary to consider… — Richard Rudd Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
“What is a woman’s place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin’s words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
If you look at what we did with 'Winter Soldier' with the Cap character in terms of bringing him into the modern… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would… — Ernest Van den Haag Copy Share Image
In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate… — Alexander Waugh Copy Share Image
“If you are ignorant of Lora Delane Porter’s books that is your affair. Perhaps you are more to be pitied than censured.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“This is not a contemporary treatise on gender identity. This is a first person story told by an 8 year old as… — Jennifer Buck Copy Share Image
“A more general statement of Davies's point would be that when institutions and meaning systems are threatened or disrupted, it may not… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“Osama, baah!" Bashir roared. "Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America,… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The men who had inhabited prehistoric Egypt, who had carved the Sphinx and founded the world‘s oldest civilization, were men who had… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it. — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world! — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases. — Patrick Hayden Copy Share Image
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
