Ancien regime — One of Taylor’s “types” of religious identity, the ancient and medieval ordering tied religious identity to political identity: the king is divinely appointed.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

Skepticism is in fact the wholly self-abrogating contradiction.

I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.

In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.

Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.

When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.

A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.

Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

It hurts the most when the person who made you feel so special yesterday makes you feel so unwanted today.