Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

There's a leadership gap in the modern business world. Young professionals need to step up to the challenge.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

These days, the FBIS service regularly includes translations from many terrorist or terrorist-linked websites and chat forums. They provide an unprecedented inside look at how modern terrorist groups function and operate. They also offer a possible chain of evidence that, if properly investigated, can lead back to important transnational terrorist operatives. In other words, don't shut the websites down, but rather use them as a means to shut the terrorist organization down instead.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.