Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

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

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

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

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

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 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 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.

A turning point in modern history.

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

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.

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.

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 A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Be young. Keep yourself young by having a good, sporty car like a Corvette. It keeps you on your toes. It keeps you young. It keeps you thinking young. It keeps you thinking modern and good things. Corvette is a modern, modern automobile.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

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.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

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

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Communism is something that comes from the classics of Marxism that talked of a modern society we should aspire to. One that is truly fair where relations of monetary exchange are not the priority but rather one where peoples' needs could be satisfied.

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

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.

Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice.

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

Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.