The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in… — Patricia Hewitt Copy Share Image
I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so. — Norman Potter Copy Share Image
Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
The West has never been all of the world that matters. The West has not been the only actor on the stage… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe.… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
The maha-mantra was prescribed for modern times because of the fast-paced nature of things today. Even when people do get into a… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
I didn't know why I was coming to this room. Someone just told me to go to Sam Raimi's office. I knew… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge. — Mohammed Arkoun Copy Share Image
I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP. — Stephen K. Bannon Copy Share Image
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
We have grown as primitive man to modern ways and are now looking for modern man to grow from merely primitive choices — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
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I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up. — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury Copy Share Image
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
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