When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been… — Cory Arcangel Copy Share Image
While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth. — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary,… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He's been a legend for decades and… — Alexa Ray Joel Copy Share Image
Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Kyle must have seen my panic, because when I looked up at him again, his jacket and shirt were off and he… — Christie Cote Copy Share Image
The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
I have always been obsessed by the company and making sure that the company is the most contemporary, the most modern of… — Maurice Levy Copy Share Image
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ...It is a crime… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active,… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
“Do not tell me what I think you're going to or I swear to God, I'm going to fly to Brazil and… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image