Empire Quote by Linda Colley Download Open image “Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.” — Linda Colley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empire Modernity Same Shifting True
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a… — Gianni Vattimo Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, the modernity is something that comes from Western countries, and when the modernity comes to the Eastern countries,… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Britain, like other European states, is not and never will again be in the top-world-power league, so its male leaders can afford to play… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Never fly to the U.S. the day before Thanksgiving or the weekend after because every airport is guaranteed to be crammed to bursting with… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Men and women do not live by bread alone. They also need sustaining ideas. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
High-level political wives are by no means new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when patricians dominated British political life, it was common for… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political or partisan… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad cult of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Even at its most powerful, Britain always needed alliances with other European states. There would almost certainly have been no British victory at Waterloo,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
We'd always come into Syracuse for the Empire State Games and the stair fair. — Beau Biden Copy Share Image
“I got tired of constantly watching shrewd little bullies like you walk around like you mean something, like you’re better than the people that… — Christopher Rankin Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty;… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of Mamun, the… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions around the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
