Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me. — Gael Greene Copy Share Image
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has… — Peter Warlock Copy Share Image
We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We… — Margaret Whiting Copy Share Image
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
The problems of our day loom ominously before us. Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The Panic of 1819 exerted a profound effect on American economic thought. As the first great financial depression, similar to a modern… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty,… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
You're talking to a modern, nice, affable German person and they're saying to you something like 'You know, vell, it's a critical… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I think you can imagine everyone has ankle weights on, or technology, and there's a reason that people aren't floating around. But… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image