Modern Quotes
Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.
In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.
All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage
Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War, but in the modern times this country has never been more divided.
Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.
I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.
Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.
Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool fish.
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.
Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.
Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.
For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.
Readable, faithful, accurate-what more could you ask for in a modern translation of the Bible? GOD'S WORD Translation is a great version for enhancing your love for God's Word. I recommend it.
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence
In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.
Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.
Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.