Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

A modern Woman is not necessarily...s omeone who just buys expensive stuff... ...a modern Woman is someone who buys intelligently.

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or 'correcting' them according to our modern ideals.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

Are science and Christianity friends? The answer to that is an emphatic yes, for any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God's revelation. But this science is not naturalistic, while modern science usually is.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

As someone who spends a lot of her time on the road, you have to look stylish but comfortable as I'm always in motion. Either traveling for my job, for pleasure, or managing the hectic pace of the modern day.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

A turning point in modern history.

Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.

A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions.

Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War, but in the modern times this country has never been more divided.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

Ben Hogan is the most merciless of all the modern golfers.

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.