Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

— Steven Pinker

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in…

— Victoria Derbyshire

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over…

— Louise Bogan

If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic.…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless…

— Michael Yates

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

— Rosemary Mahoney

The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.…

— William Henry Pickering

I enjoy cooking, but stick to modern dishes.

— David Starkey

Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all…

— Eugene H. Peterson

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge

Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He…

— Peter Shaffer

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

— Robert Henri

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

— Elias Canetti