Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV. — Alan Carr Copy Share Image
In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery. — Jason Clarke Copy Share Image
A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is — George Alagiah Copy Share Image
“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I personally guarantee that now that bear wouldn't get past Dover without being shot. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news. — Kelvin MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“While good old-fashioned manners and etiquette have worked for centuries, new standards and expectations have come into play with the modern world.… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
The romantic image of the ancient world is very inspiring, as is nature itself, but I think the dissatisfaction with our modern… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
“Although it was almost midnight, London wasn't dark. Cities like London never were, she suspected, not anymore. The modern world had killed… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.” — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“In religion and politics, on the contrary, though there is as yet nothing approaching scientific knowledge, everybody considers it de rigueur to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Our immune system is evolving through trials of use in fighting illnesses and the bombardment of our modern world toxins and that… — Martha Char Love Copy Share Image
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“ What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The basic trouble with the modern world … is the intellectual fallacy that freedom and compulsion are opposites. To solve the gigantic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think confronted with the modern world or with the rest of the world, I think people are becoming aware that the… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is always difficult to make the transition to a modern world. I moved from the world of faith to the world… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Families, nations, classes, other loyalty groups… — Fritz Leiber 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
“(Golden Globe acceptance speech in the style of Jane Austen's letters ): "Four A.M. Having just returned from an evening at the… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“It seems to us that there are four great collective sociological assumptions in the modern world. By this we mean not only… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
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