Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform… — Kenneth Frampton Copy Share Image
The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
In general, we like to shoot Breaking Bad like a modern day Western, and Sergio Leone is one of my all-time favorite… — Michelle MacLaren Copy Share Image
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people; they must be governed by… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was… — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen… — Ross Lovegrove Copy Share Image
In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
