Quotes of: Celebrity-culture Keyword

Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.

Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings: With Observations on Culture and Language

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing sinful about a waffle.

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

Belonging: A Culture of Place

New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

Ruta Sepetys

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

Matrix Model Management System: Guide to Cross Cultural Wisdom

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

... a hunger that is more than simply material connects the human who feeds the chickens to the chickens that feed the humans.

Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet

A word to the wise an't nesisary its the stupid ones who need the edvise.

The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution

All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it is not, for many, an easy one to remember.

The People in the Trees

A black cat crossing the road is considered bad luck in some cultures. What about the cat’s culture?

Thoughts from a naked unshackled mind

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

In Conquest Born

Evangelicals have squandered their cultural capital because they have tried to reclaim a standing in American culture that they never had. The American Founding was a mix of fragmented religious (and not-so-religious) voices.

Joseph LaConte

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.

Neil Tennant

There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper cr...

Os Guinness

Our culture places a very high value on storytelling, and the more that Catholic writers are able to master that craft, the more they can speak to the culture, the more powerful their stories will be.

Regina Doman

High culture can never be obliterated as long as the species continues to produce individuals with the inclination and fortitude to pursue their interests and talents against the grain of the mass culture surrounding them.

Susan Jacoby

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which...

Theodor W. Adorno

While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

Ted Dekker