“We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
“No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The resulting union of idealism and love of power has led men astray over and over again, and is still doing so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The everyday issues that we witness against women in the present day will throw light on the respect women enjoyed at the… — Dalip Tahil Copy Share Image
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy… — P. E. Cleator Copy Share Image
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had… — George Gissing 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
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
Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions;… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“It seems, however, to be otherwise with stronger and livelier thinkers who are still eager for life. In that they side against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The obsession with past trauma refracts World Lit’s sense of belatedness, even when the genre advertises its contemporaneity. You can argue that… — The editors n+1 Copy Share Image
“We have a long distance to travel,' said the Angel of Death to our friend Gil, as soon as they had left… — Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Copy Share Image
“The lively thought-image of foam serves to recover the premetaphysical pluralism of world-inventions postmetaphysically. It helps us to enter the element of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
THE PATH IS exceedingly vast. From ancient times to the present day, even the greatest sages were unable to perceive and comprehend… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
When you look at Istanbul, from Byzantium to the present day, it's striking how it has always been a city of the… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“One last unexploded mine remains, its exact location unknown and its hidden potency serving as something of a symbol of the Great… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day. — Liliʻuokalani Copy Share Image
“So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of… — Charles Dickens 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
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
“A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Racism is over in the 'Star Trek' future, but they found a way to comment on sexism and racism in the present… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
