Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100… — Deborah King Copy Share Image
The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world. — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it… — George L. Carlson Copy Share Image
That big hit 'Get Lucky' is a disco song - not only the melody and the whole concept, but we had one… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the… — Edmund Leach Copy Share Image
Ah, those were the days…The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that,… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am'… — Mark Davis Copy Share Image
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is. — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
