Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

...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.

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

Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

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

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

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

Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved religiously in the pre-modern period.

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

Readable, faithful, accurate-what more could you ask for in a modern translation of the Bible? GOD'S WORD Translation is a great version for enhancing your love for God's Word. I recommend it.

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander.

Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.