Modern Quotes
I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.
... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.
Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!
You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.
Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie
All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.
Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.
Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.
The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.
In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.
Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.
Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world.