When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“She touched him everywhere she could reach. The rounded hardness of his biceps and chest, the ripped contours of his back, his… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
The color palette grew as the story progressed. The 1920's sharecroppers were muted and neutrals, the 30's and 40's introduced burgundy to… — Ruth E. Carter Copy Share Image
contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The God content of the past no longer sustains the contemporary spirit. We sense that our only hope is to journey past… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of… — Mike Young Copy Share Image
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new… — Thomas Cochrane Copy Share Image
There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers,… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath. — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness. — James Hillman 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 first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
