The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United… — David E. Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
In my view, the critical questions in this era of mass incarceration are: What disturbs us? What seems contrary to expectation? Who… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
There's so many ways in which Canada and America are inextricably connected politically, economically, socially. There's no stepping away. But at the… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr Copy Share Image
That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative.… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A different [Ronald] Reagan-era authority: EO 12333, an executive order for foreign-intelligence collection, as opposed to the ones we now use domestically.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would… — Will Forte Copy Share Image