It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to… — Rachel Copy Share Image
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like any classic you hope to get rid of all the varnish that's built up over the centuries where people expect it… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off… — William Attwood Copy Share Image
To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic'… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies. — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century. — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940… — Peter Stilbs Copy Share Image
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is… — Alex Carey Copy Share Image