Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling. — Des Hanafin Copy Share Image
It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government. — Robert A. Agresta Copy Share Image
Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid? — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
“You are an enchanting person, rather old fashioned for this modern world, but very enchanting and pleasing.” — Shirley Sealy Copy Share Image
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state. — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world. — R. Murray Schafer Copy Share Image
It may make you feel nice to pretend that the societies that gave rise to the modern world were ones of pure… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more foreign to the hermit than the clownery of a glittering career, success, and all those vulgar illusions that… — Cornelius Wencel Copy Share Image
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“The slow movement is not about doing everything at a snail's pace. Nor is it a Luddite attempt to drag the whole… — Carl Honoré Copy Share Image
Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
One reason for the primacy of the market in shaping the modern world is that it forces a reorganization of society in… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This… — Eva Burrows Copy Share Image
Britain's political voice depends on our role as a leading and influential member of the E.U. If we leave, we are of… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness,… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“The men who had inhabited prehistoric Egypt, who had carved the Sphinx and founded the world‘s oldest civilization, were men who had… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“It turns out that our perspective has a surprising amount of influence over the body’s stress response. When we turn a threat… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“But what does America have to do with ancient Israel? Israel was unique among nations in that it was conceived and dedicated… — Jonathan Cahn Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to Type I processing mechanisms of low computational expense. Using less… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
