Quotes of: Modern-world Keyword

Mishaque was a stouty blend of Irish "shrek" mixed with crazy Jafakain, his front was car dealing.

Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed

There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.

The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.

Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.

Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

Yes? No? It doesn't matter. In America, "Qualification" is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.

The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys--either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right.

The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

The Writing of Fiction

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibilit...

Edward Zwick

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

A. N. Wilson

I am grieved for my children—and boy’s in particular—that this modern age is emasculating men under the guise of “the best interest of the children”.

H. Kirk Rainer

In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus began my journey into explori...

Lisa Kristine

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

Edward Sapir

Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration.

Harish Rawat

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Julie Taymor

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

Twyla Tharp

In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emoti...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in burning out or otherwise eliminating Evil when Evil just couldn't keep its ugly head down and stay in the shado...

The Dead Town

It is an axiom of modern social psychology that the stories that tend to get repeated are the ones that somehow have the potential to strengthen the communities in which they are told, or to enhance the relationship between the teller and the hearer....

Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women