How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
My miscarriage made me realize that many modern career women take on too much. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do. — Elie Abel Copy Share Image
Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
...these are the problems of the modern U.S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark and an American media that… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician. — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed.… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame,… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'." — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very… — Steven Levitan Copy Share Image
...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
"The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently… — Oliver B. Greene Copy Share Image
Fragility of modern world leaves me with the idea we'd better anticipate what's going on. We take our right steps today and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Modern infidelity is different than traditional infidelity and sits on top of the romantic ideal that you find "the one" and that… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
