Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“HPL inadvertently created an open source fantastic universe unlike any other, ultimately grounded in the modern world, but enriched by secret histories… — Ross E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people's perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
“We have bestowed on Africa just enough of the disposable junk of the modern world to create in African cities a junkyard… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“In our modern world of today, the search for personal satisfaction and fulfilment has become practically universal. It is extraordinary to consider… — Richard Rudd Copy Share Image
“We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
“For a long time I had wanted to take leave of Planet Tourism, to find one of those places that occasionally turn… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
Commonwealth is the only alternative for Puerto Rico. It is the only alternative that harmonizes the aspirations and goals of the modern… — Anibal Acevedo Vila Copy Share Image
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it,… — Andrew Rayner Copy Share Image
Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
“People are vaccinated with dangerous chemicals during their childhood, indoctrinated with immorality through television while growing up, taught to reject God by… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“We fight for autonomy over so many areas of our lives - for decency and democracy and freedom, for suffrage, for the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“They argue that the modern world was created by private capital. The subcontinent of India, for instance, was owned by the British… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go. Admittedly, the rites of passage of… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“The few survivors were hounded into an evangelical concentration camp, where well-meaning but not particularly open-minded missionaries tried to indoctrinate them in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We believe that information is an enlightening agent, but I can assure you it is not. We consume information, but we can’t… — R.F. Georgy Copy Share Image
“Modern culture rejects this belief in a great cosmic plan. We are not actors in any larger-than-life drama. Life has no script,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is… — Donald Keough Copy Share Image
Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant… — Old Tom Morris Copy Share Image
Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol… — Roger Revelle Copy Share Image
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological,… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts.… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama says Tibet and the modern world can engage in a conversation; perhaps Tibet has something to share with the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of,… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
“There was nothing in the modern world to excite a man, or a woman, nothing except constant and mindless entertainment.” — Ryan Westfield Copy Share Image