I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
“In the past a theory could get by on its beauty; in the modern world a successful theory has to work for… — Howard Wainer Copy Share Image
Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world. — Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Copy Share Image
All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience. — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
“In the modern world there was so much safety that safety had become the chief source of danger.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I personally guarantee that now that bear wouldn't get past Dover without being shot. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“I have a great longing for a particular sort of world in which one can work and breathe and sometimes be insanely… — Anna Seghers Copy Share Image
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There… — Chris Cooper Copy Share Image
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Just as medieval culture did not manage to square chivalry with Christianity, so the modern world fails to square liberty with equality.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Yesterday, I tried to call Northwest Airlines' customer-service line over a couple of hours. I couldn't get through. The recording said, "Due… — Jay Nordlinger Copy Share Image
I had been reading a lot of J.G. Ballard in the 90's and was fascinated by the idea of the vapid consumer… — Miles Aldridge Copy Share Image
One reason why people find applying the Bible to work so difficult is that the world of Scriptures seems so distant from… — David Kim Copy Share Image
“The Eastern and Western Cherokees live thousands of miles from each other. Yet, many ties remain, through family, friends, and a shared… — Nicole Claro Copy Share Image
“The ancient world found an end to anarchy in the Roman Empire, but the Roman Empire was a brute fact, not an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“But I think that there are things about the United States that aren't really recognized sufficiently, so it's important to remember that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the modern world, those whom we effectively hate are distant groups, especially foreign nations. We conceive them abstractly, and deceive ourselves… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, the life of a businessperson always involves some risk; the higher the risk, the greater the reward. On the other… — Anas O Hamshari B Sc Copy Share Image
“It is tempting to look back at Bear’s people from the perspective of this modern world and see them as changeless and… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw did 500,000,000,000 multiple choice questions on a computer test about companies racing for global leadership have to consider competing in… — Brandon McCaw 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
“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is — George Alagiah Copy Share Image
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
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people. — Mihai Eminescu Copy Share Image
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