“NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.” ShouldOrderHouseWishWhiteModernBuildingResearchShould HaveOrganizationWhite HouseNasaReplacements Author:Burt Rutan
“Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute "Germans and Japanese" for Samaritan. I fear my modern day Christians would resent such a substitution, because it would compel them to realize how far they have departed from the teachings of the founder of their religion.” IfsShouldSaidChristianWishChristRealizingTeachingModernUnderstoodNeighborSubstitutesFoundersThyselfNeighbourResentParablesDepartedModern DayLove Thy NeighborSubstitutionSamaritans Author:Bertrand Russell
“Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ?” EndsPastWishProcessImpossibleModernCenturyProductsEndurePoetry IsTransitionExtensionsRomanticismRomantic PoetryModern Poetry Author:Randall Jarrell
“Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.” WorldShouldWishCausesInterestPowerfulModernExampleAccomplishmentGermanyBritainRepublicHonourSpainModern WorldPreventingGreat PowerGreat BritainGreat Powerful Book:Memorials and correspondence Source: Memorials and correspondence
“Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.” WorldKindIndividualWishGoalVoiceResultsVisionViolenceModernDeterminationWestIslamViolentModern LifeEloquentMilitantJihadPhobiaHegemonyIslamistsBurqa Author:Daniel Pipes
“It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.” WarPurposeWishModernEventsParticularPoetAspectUniversalWarfareModern Warfare Author:Herbert Read
“The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become the modern cosmologist who gazes at the same sky through the eyes of Einstein and sees the hand of God not in angels but in the constants of nature. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it¹s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.” WantHandsEyeMovingNightOrderUniverseWishSawsSkyModernStrangeAngelHarmonyLeapSpheresCoincidenceTheologianPhysicistMedievalNight SkyTemptingThrough The EyesHands Of GodLeap Of Faith Author:Tony Rothman
“It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.” IfsMindSoulEndsSeemsCertainWishModernEuropeExtraordinaryJewDrivenPlanningSupremacyResourcefulnessAscendancy Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.” ThinkingWellsWishRolesComedyWrittenModernTelevisionWell WrittenRecurringModern FamilyBest Comedy Author:Patti LuPone