Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
As far as feminism is concerned be the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real.… — Roksanda Ilincic Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life,… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
it may be said that children are but newly-issued editions of old compositions, re-bound and corrected, with fresh introductions, modern print and… — Anna Kingsford Copy Share Image
What we've done with our modern food supply is absolute insanity. It's not even real any more. You used to be able… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
In the modern game, you have to be ready to change if the other team are tactically different to what you have… — Mason Mount Copy Share Image
In modern football, you need to make decisions quickly and play fast. — Wissam Ben Yedder Copy Share Image
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
You just wait and see. The lily-livered b*stards in Washington will demobilize. They'll say they've made the world safe for democracy again.… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost… — Tim Soutphommasane Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks. — Mat McNerney Copy Share Image
The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower. — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip.… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond. — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
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