Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure… — Francis George Copy Share Image
As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The stories of our Indigenous people have shaped the very foundational fabric of our modern day. And so much of that is… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
Modern government has become a universal transfer agency that utilizes the political process for distributing vast measures of income and wealth. It… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites. — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way. — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'. — Willis Harman Copy Share Image
The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because… — William Wardell Copy Share Image
A modern man is a man who probably doesn't remember what man knows about man. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“The city of Leonia refashions itself every day: every morning the people wake between fresh sheets, wash with just-unwrapped cakes of soap,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic… — James Carville Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this… — Edward Smith Copy Share Image
The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
A lot of the older pros - I won't name names - they need the money and are bitter about the money… — Micah Richards Copy Share Image
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living… — David Christian Copy Share Image
The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
You have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game. — Jamie Redknapp Copy Share Image
The stories I would hear from men who were going through divorces and in child custody battles, the lies their wives told… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
