The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I don't know about timeless. I actually think most of what I do is completely modern, but universally modern. Who decides what… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
How did scientists get money in the past? They were either lucky and independently wealthy, like Darwin, or they had patrons, like… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture,… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it… — Elizabeth Holmes Copy Share Image
Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In this age of vampires, what I love about 'True Blood' the most is that it's a post-modern take on it. 'Sookie… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
For a modern look, hang curtains from the ceiling with a very simple pleat at the top so they will hang straight. — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
We aren't born with the innate knowledge of how to "do" relationship. Even worse, we've been brainwashed by modern day society to… — Arielle Ford Copy Share Image
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop,… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
The TV is often on in our house, but I really only keep up with three shows: 'American Idol,' 'Modern Family' and… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
