Modern Quotes
The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.
Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and greatly reducing the real prices they had to pay for what was produced.
The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.
I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.
My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.
Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.
Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.
A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.
I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.
The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.
Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.
I'm a modern girl, but you should put your husband first. I like to think divorce is not an option.
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.
The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.
We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.
There's a huge gap in the market for modern online marketing and business education for women that's effective, fun, and gorgeous to engage with. I knew I could fill that gap.
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.
Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.
Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.
The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.