Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

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 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 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 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.'

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

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

It's modern-day slavery.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

[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.

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

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

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

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

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

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

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

London is a modern Babylon.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be another. At the same time, 'Love' has a modern feel. For example: In one scene, these astronauts go through a wormhole sequence, and you feel like you're being slapped around inside your head by a sonic boom.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

Many people don't know that you don't spend 10 minutes without using a satellite. Or that agriculture is managed from space. Banking, too. The space program is like our airports and highways. It's not a luxury. It's part of the fabric of the modern world.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Maybe the most interesting find in my research is that it is clear that Ronald Reagan, among all modern presidents, plainly rediscovered the founders.

Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.