Quotes for All
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps–located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq. Eric Weiner
See I’m a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare. Eminem
Joaquin Jackson’s frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb. Elmer Kelton
I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together. Elizabeth Meriwether
So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism. Elizabeth Gilbert
By and large, the answer to the question \”How do large institutions survive?\” is \”They don’t!\” The vast majority of large modern-day institutions – some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization – simply fail to exist in the first place. Eliezer Yudkowsky
It’s understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them. Eddie Vedder
Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say \”no, thanks\” to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe – our fear-driven culture. Frances Moore Lappé
Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They’d all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. Drew Carey
As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day Australia is anything other than a grand – and successful – outpost of Euro-colonialism and, more specifically Anglo-Celt British colonialism. It’s a fact of life like the Euro-colonization of the Americas … Read more