Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate… — Gunter Pauli Copy Share Image
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I view Witchcraft as a religion that has evolved over the centuries. I do not consider Witchcraft to be a modern invention.… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858,… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones.… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
How many of y'all wondered, like I did, during the LA riots when those people were being pulled out of their trucks… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this? — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
Modern managers have a lot of demands on them, and many feel, with justification, that they do not have the time to… — Paul Scholes Copy Share Image
From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand.… — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
No, the mullet's gone, I've have a nice blonde, spiky haircut, but it's quite modern. — Limahl Copy Share Image
When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.'… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The modern era of feminism relies on a lot of accepted premises. The biggest one is that men are predators, that they're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. — Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh Copy Share Image
I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube. — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
