There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments. — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“The truth is that there is opportunity right now in your present day. Every day offers its own set of golden opportunities.” — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image
Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to locate the cliche of the 'strong woman' exclusively in the present day, as if those many women who… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“The name which I have selected will prepare the reader to expect no new doctrines in this volume. It is simple, unadulterated,… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning… — Horace-Benedict de Saussure Copy Share Image
I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
“It is 100 years since John Dewey began arguing for the kind of change that would move schools away from authoritarian classrooms… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“Leading by example through "Servant Leadership" used to be a badge of honor that distinguished you from the Corps of the Blue… — Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army Copy Share Image
...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free: as they… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“So what do they do with their hands? Curiously, the most popular image of the listening psychoanalyst ascribes a notepad to them.… — Darian Leader Copy Share Image
“how often do we forget that there is hope as well, and that we seldom think about hope? We are ready to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Four Millions of people heretofore declared by the highest tribunal in the land, not citizens of the United States, nor eligible to… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The all-sustaining power of knowledge is captured in the simile of knowledge being food for the soul. Various versions of it are… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Lancelot and Guenever were sitting at the solar window. An observer of the present day, who knew the Arthurian legend only from… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“After relating these things concerning John, he makes mention of our Saviour in the same work, in the following words: And there… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day. — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image