Modern Quotes

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

The Aly loafer is our modern take on the penny loafer with a subtle slit across the top. I wear loafers with everything these days- skinny jeans, long skirts and dresses.

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

If elected, Hillary Clinton will be the least popular president to be elected in modern history. So there's going to be very little incentive on the part of Republicans to work with her.

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain's is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me. And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern.

It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.