The most profound question is, "What would I risk dying for?" The natural answer is "for my family." But for most of… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
As a woman, for example, I live and work very much like a man. I take a lot of things from the… — Pernille Fischer Christensen Copy Share Image
America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life,… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
“Modern life assaults us with an infinite range of things we could do, we would love to do, or some people tell… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
People at all levels and in all roles in organizations are wrestling with the challenges of modern life, trying to find ways… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“The Dopamine Paradigm by Stewart Stafford Never so connected, Yet, never further apart, A crowded room's isolation, An aspic suitors' false start.… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“I have discussed how the goal of feeling happy is unusual; its not like other goals such as learning to bake a… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
The Amazon lot are perfectly reasonable, level-headed people who just want to make TV programmes. I don't think they are the enemy… — James May Copy Share Image
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
The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“The economic metaphor came to be applied to every aspect of modern life, especially the areas where it simply didn't belong. In… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
I appreciate that I'm in the privileged situation of getting to spend my entire life outdoors with wildlife, and I know first… — Steve Backshall 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
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
It is the fate of modern life that we repeatedly lose touch with nature, the environment, the planet. But we try to… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“On the practical level modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning. Modern culture is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a million tear-stained… — Pink Floyd Copy Share Image
Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh.… — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“We want our movies instantly. We order our groceries at lunchtime and expect them to arrive in time for dinner. We punch… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image