Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

Most modern comedy is crap.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those of lust.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

My aim is a very modern Dior, but at the end of the day, I also look back.

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

New applications will have to deal with big data. We have to analyze it on the fly, so we have to have a system that is transactional and analytical at the same time. We cannot have a multi-stage system. This is too slow for modern applications.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.

Nothing in the world can replace the modern swimsuit, and it practically has.

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the deliberation with which Archimedes approaches the solution of any one of his main problems.

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.

One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.

One of the things you can learn from a figure like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is that if you take all the resources of the state for yourself, you don't build much of a constituency and you have to rely on repression, and repression is difficult in the modern world.

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his respect for the Bible increased by the experience of excavation in Palestine. Archaeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics.

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.