We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The modern designers are quite showy, and a lot of the young people really like it. Costume jewelry has always been about… — Judith Miller Copy Share Image
Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as… — Mildred Blaxter Copy Share Image
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It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
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I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is… — Steven Levitan Copy Share Image
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal,… — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
I love to be in New York. And I think anybody who's a designer, who says they're doing an urban collection, thinks… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Otter is the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species and its vulnerability to man's seemingly insatiable… — Virginia McKenna Copy Share Image
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us… — Philip Sherrard Copy Share Image
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden… — Judy Grahn Copy Share Image
There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
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