Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema? — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable. As strange as it… — Mika Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I usually build my collections on colors and on staples, so when you buy pieces, you are really adding to your wardrobe,… — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I'm a classic English liberal. A classical liberal, which is different to the modern interpretation of liberal in America. — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Looking relevant, modern, timely and appropriate in terms of your age, body type and lifestyle is not only about the joy of… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers,… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you always need to try your… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
Marine Le Pen is more careful than her dad was about saying things like denying the Holocaust, right? But it`s the same… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men. — Jessica Savitch Copy Share Image
Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after. — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
