Most of modern life, all our diseases, are diseases of abundance, not diseases of scarcity.

The modern struggle – Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising, up against armies of scientists and statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, and medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games...

The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.

leap upstairs” against their reason and try to find something which gives meaning to life, even though to do so they have to deny their reason.This was a solution Leonardo da Vinci and the men...

an utter walkover with a man who can pen a pretty email

sometimes I hearscreaming like a childand wake upto find it’s me

In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.

The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, from decade to decade, to be allowing, and in the most liberal and intelligent manner, for brilliancy of change....

In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

We didn’t reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

Music is a gut thing. You’re working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There’s a congregation.

Evangelical Christians need to notice…, that the Reformation said ‘Scripture Alone’ and not ‘the Revelation of God in Christ Alone’. If you do not have the view of the Scriptures that the Reformers had, you...

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we’re here. And we’re trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

The modern video games kind of – they’re too three dimensional.

We met with the poet Frank O’Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

Don’t compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals.

The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

I attended Professional Children’s School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle – ancient or modern – must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are...

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

Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus’ wounds, verified Muhammad’s ascent to heaven, and even interacted with their respective deities directly. Today, believers have no such luxury....

In the modern desktop environment, with multitasking and alerts and constant activity, there are always more distractions. When you’re at a computer, your hands are always on the controls.

More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.

I chase goals, not girls.

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

I really wanted to do ‘Modern Family,’ and I really liked the script, and I liked the people.

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even...

This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in...

I also read modern novels – I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

The city of Leonia refashions itself every day: every morning the people wake between fresh sheets, wash with just-unwrapped cakes of soap, wear brand-new clothing, take from the latest model refrigerator still unopened tins, listening...

Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man’s hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.