By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. — Paul Bert Copy Share Image
I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach. — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
It's a ridiculous function of modern work life that we can't just be sick, we then have to beat ourselves up about… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player. — Sharon Begley Copy Share Image
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves. — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes. — William Hague Copy Share Image
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not);… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The… — Margaret M. Lock Copy Share Image
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol… — Roger Revelle Copy Share Image
If you think of- of the rhetoric of - of modern Democrats, it's often so focused on government that people don't accept… — James Vance Copy Share Image
In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us not fear the opposition of men; every great movement in the Church from Paul down to modern times has been… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives… — Omer Bartov Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water… — Eustace Conway Copy Share Image
One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of… — Henry Norris Russell Copy Share Image
Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government. — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Boo-hoo. Help me, I'm a girl. What kind of modern woman are you? A smart one. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
A modern man is a man who probably doesn't remember what man knows about man. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
