Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence? — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint. — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries,… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with… — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do -… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries...… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
I’m a Republican who embraces science and understands we have to work with the next generation of Millennials to have the innovation… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again -… — Hisham Melhem Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image