Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more… — Kevin Garnett Copy Share Image
Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We want to sound modern, but we're still influenced by ska, reggae and Eighties U.K. bands. — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else. — John Leo Copy Share Image
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as… — Willa Cather 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
