[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall,… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school. — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed… — Jeremy Jackson Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Staying relevant is key. When you're telling your story, you better have a modern story to tell. If I was still saying… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much,… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I think there was certainly contact between the Trump campaign and Russians, which is perfectly normal. All campaigns in the modern age… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle.… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I don't really know what's going to happen 10,000 years from now. We've been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let's… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception. — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
I love Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' - he's very good. And the 'Modern Family' cast just cracks me up. — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by… — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker Copy Share Image
When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Bombay-Pune Expressway, a spanking, modern, six-lane highway will, when completed, be India's first truly international road constructed on the lines of… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
These days, the FBIS service regularly includes translations from many terrorist or terrorist-linked websites and chat forums. They provide an unprecedented inside… — Evan Kohlmann Copy Share Image
It wasn't a conscious decision at first to pick up handloom and wear it, till I noticed some of the designers doing… — Regina Cassandra Copy Share Image
I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his… — S. R. Ranganathan Copy Share Image
Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate. — James Ransone Copy Share Image
Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image