“If a man couldn't escape what he came from, we would most of us still be peasants in Old World hovels. But,… — John Graves Copy Share Image
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“You look beautiful,” my dad said as he walked over to me and offered his arm. His voice was quiet--even quieter than… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The… — Warren St. John Copy Share Image
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities… What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“Because six billion of us are pursuing an evolutionarily unstable strategy, we’re fundamentally attacking the very ecological systems that keep us alive.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“In his groundbreaking book Guns, Germs, and Steel, biologist Jared Diamond poses the question: Why did Old World diseases devastate the New… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“I pass by cottages with candles glowing in windows, rocking chairs on front porches where people sit with large books on their… — Shea Ernshaw Copy Share Image
“The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here.… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
In the old world of business, there was often just one seat at the leadership table for women, two at best. That… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The historical moment when Bolshevism triumphed for itself in Russia and social democracy fought victoriously for the old world marks the inauguration… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“This, then, was the Old World on the eve of Columbus’s departure in 1492. For almost half a millennium Christians had been… — David E. Stannard Copy Share Image
“I refused to have bookshelves, horrified that I'd feel compelled to organise the books in some regimented system - Dewey or alphabetical… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“Old World Bourdeaux, the noblest and most lauded of the many noble and lauded French wines. Like Champagne or Burgundy, Bourdeaux is… — Larry Olmsted Copy Share Image
“More than a century before Mills and Nisbet, Alexis de Tocqueville had remarked upon the uneasiness of the citizens of the young… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
“The Old World belief is this: Individuals are cells in a greater organism. All men are naturally dependent, obedient, controlled by Authority.… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“The Old World science found in the Bible would not be considered “wrong” or “false” as much as it would just offer… — John H. Walton Copy Share Image
“If from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement,… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
We are living in a very exciting and powerful time. On the deepest level of consciousness, a radical spiritual transformation is taking… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe,… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
“Keep struggling, o brave soldier - keep struggling till politicians become an extinct species and politics an extinct profession. The mission is,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The proud tower built up through the great age of European civilization was an edifice of grandeur and passion, of riches and… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“The world remembers the battle ever since by the taxis. A hundred of them were already in the service of the Military… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Those five characteristics are: 1. Reactivity: the vicious cycle of intense reactions of each member to events and to one another. 2.… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“The dawn will be upon us in a couple of hours. We need to leave this place." "I won't go with you,"… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“What about you, Snipes?" Dunbar asked. "You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?" Snipes… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Aiden was taught about the old world, the ways in which his ancestors and their nations lived. In those ‘grandest times’ it… — A.E. Shaw Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
“she could sell in the café provisions she baked in her own time with a shelf life longer than pastries. When she… — Karen Weinreb Copy Share Image
You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“No, this architecture in Council Bluffs and Omaha, this whole deeply embedded psychology of the use of space, simply conveys that there… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“…For many years now, that way of living has been scorned, and over the last 40 or 50 years it has nearly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
