Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way. — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the modern Southern GOP was born. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art. — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on… — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we’ll label “modernism” for… — Heath White Copy Share Image
Even when I have a vintage play, I draw in elements from current scenarios, so that modern audiences can empathize with the… — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's… — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a… — David Bellamy Copy Share Image
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the… — Elmer Kelton Copy Share Image
A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love.… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
In many ways we've become the Babylon of the modern era. We learned our lessons at the feet of Nebuchadnezzar himself. It's… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image