Modern Quotes

I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the modern world, ever-ready to help others.

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.

Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.

What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander.

There's a leadership gap in the modern business world. Young professionals need to step up to the challenge.

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.