Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and… — Henry George Copy Share Image
There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
“I do regard modern universities to be biologically toxic environments for healthy students.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use. — Jacob Braude Copy Share Image
A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We didn't make the first mp3, smartphone, or tablet. But you can say we made the first modern mp3, smartphone, and tablet.… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such,… — John Hessin Clarke Copy Share Image
Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is… — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Copy Share Image
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
