Modern Quotes
It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.
In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.
The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.
The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.
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!
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.
The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.
The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.
It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate.
I've always aligned myself with a more modern, European fit. I maintain that fit is the thing that makes or breaks an outfit. Good tailoring trumps designer and price any day.
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happened. I think the world would be a much nicer place.
One of the easiest ways to go green is to go small. I want to show people that there's an amazing modern green future, and make it easy for them to step into it.
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.
I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.