Quotes of: Boy-bands Keyword

It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.

Samuel Moyn

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

S. Jay Olshansky

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

S. Jay Olshansky

A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

S. Jay Olshansky

The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

S. Jay Olshansky

I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.

Steve Prefontaine

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

Salman Rushdie

By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.

Simon Schama

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

Simon Schama

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

Sherry Turkle

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

Sherry Turkle

I used to arch my back for boys who couldn’t even remember the color of my bedsheets. But you, however, made me turnover the arch on my mouth.

Sade Andria Zabala

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

Thomas Bulfinch

Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

Thomas Frank

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Thomas Fuller

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Thomas Fuller

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

Todd Gitlin

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

Todd Gitlin

I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

Talcott Parsons

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Talcott Parsons