Modern Quotes

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

I think Radiohead and Outkast are the two modern popular groups who you can actually say that about. We take inspiration from everywhere.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

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

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

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

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

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

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

London is a modern Babylon.

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

Greed has no boundaries

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.