We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The new century demands new partnerships for peace and security. The United Nations plays a crucial role, with allies sharing burdens America… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give… — Antonin Dvorak 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
You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna?… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism,… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and… — Yxta Maya Murray Copy Share Image
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“And does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?No, that’s too grand, too considered a process.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so… — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
