Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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!

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander.

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

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.

[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.

Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.

Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with him. He swings. Check him out!

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

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

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

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

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

Still very active And rarely seen apart You're teenage geriatrics Modern and young at heart

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in a furniture factory was bloody busy! That's just modern life. It's not a downside, you just have to be organised and keep things in perspective.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.