When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I always try to connect with what's happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that - and with Jil it… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century,… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad,… — Jonathan Moyo Copy Share Image
In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known, it's called sugar. . . . The Caribbean back in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has… — Louis Bacon Copy Share Image
For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but… — Ella Winter Copy Share Image
Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do… — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
