I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old…

“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.”

— Abhijit Naskar

What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that…

— B. C. Forbes

“In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.”

— Walter de la Mare

I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who…

— Alan Keyes

“The world remembers the battle ever since by the taxis. A hundred of them were already in the service of the Military Government of…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

— Jane Jacobs

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

“His ex-wife dumped him and the kids." Sophia's gaze lifted from the wine she held, met his. "Dumped?" "Yeah, decided there was a big…

— Nora Roberts

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're…

— Carlos Castaneda

“It was a brave old world.”

— Mark A. Rayner

“You must know, my loved one, that there are beings in the elements which almost appear like mortals, and which rarely allow themselves to…

— Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

“If a man couldn't escape what he came from, we would most of us still be peasants in Old World hovels. But, if, having…

— John Graves

He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with…

— Jonathan Franzen

“There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for…

— Bat Masterson

“I am a man of the old world, a seed that was transplanted by the wind, a seed which failed to blossom in the…

— Henry Miller