The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
People ask me about my influences and I say all the comedians in the 1970s and Dave Allen was a massive influence… — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum. — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
We must act to ensure that, no matter where you live, everyone can share in the marvels of the modern economy. — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak.… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
In the modern era, Jewish sovereignty over the land of our ancestors is a relatively short phenomenon. From the time of the… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
We want lifelong good health and an end to fearing the aging process. By combining the fruits of modern neuroscience and timeless… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most… — Arlene Dahl Copy Share Image
The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of modern stuff I really dig, like Melechesh or Italian death metal like Hour Of Penance and Bloodtruth. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites… — John Stott Copy Share Image
In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate. — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
