With the advent of the “modern” world some twenty-five…

“Those with traditional sense will follow what their heart tells them is right.”

— Fennel Hudson

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

— Tabitha King

I'm not a singer in the traditional sense of the word.

— Everlast

I do sort of question the notion that conservatives should try and turn America into a place where people can come from traditional societies…

— Amy Wax

I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in…

— Ry Cooder

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Critical thinking is an unavoidable part of growing up. We do not become adults without it. But in the modern world, this stage often…

— Marcus J. Borg

Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.

— Bill Bryson

“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.”

— J.S.B. Morse

“She’d thought Troy stank: the corpse piles, the fires, the fish guts thoughtfully left out for the gods—gee fucking thanks, guys, just what we…

— Stephen King

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Virtually all letter writers confessed how their encounter with Nietzsche's philosophy either emboldened or chastened them, liberated them from old falsehoods, or saddled them…

— Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern…

— Sam Harris

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

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