Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job… — Victoria Derbyshire Copy Share Image
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters,… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
If we don't like modern Britain, then it is very unlikely that modern Britain will like us. — Damian Green Copy Share Image
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts. — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Man's endeavour to cross even the most difficult terrain with railway lines has produced some of the most stunning marvels of engineering… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature. — Alexander Ludwig Copy Share Image
What Americans desperately need is a way to transition from the current system - which is fragmented and focuses on high-cost, high-tech… — Matthew Heineman Copy Share Image
