Modern Quotes
The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.
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.
Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.
A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.
In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.
All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.
A modern Woman is not necessarily...s omeone who just buys expensive stuff... ...a modern Woman is someone who buys intelligently.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!
Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?
Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.
When I took the job as Estée Lauder's creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern.
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.
As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
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.
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
I'd say that the modern social sciences are just showing us why the conditions for implementing Hudud are so demanding, and thus Hudud should only be for the absolutely last resort.