Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year… — Dan Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew,… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
As value investors, our business is to buy bargains that financial market theory says do not exist. We've delivered great returns to… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see. The first automatic process where… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with… — John Green Copy Share Image
Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the… — Nils-Axel Morner Copy Share Image
We've got to be delivering young people, and people that are getting reeducated, people who are getting reemployed, into the marketplace with… — Ann McLane Kuster Copy Share Image
I think it would be over-exaggeration to think that there are millions of viruses ready to jump on us and bring us… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
