Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

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

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.

It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and places, without ever abating an iota of its unshaken principles.

It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

It's modern-day slavery.

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

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

I've always aligned myself with a more modern, European fit. I maintain that fit is the thing that makes or breaks an outfit. Good tailoring trumps designer and price any day.

I’ve even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf)

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

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

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

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

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.