Modern Quotes

Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why!

I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

The way to develop your psychic ability is by learning to create a shield between yourself and the sensorial and vibratory bombardment that we experience in the modern world.

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.

In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.

You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

The modern Australia, the Australia of the 21st Century, Malcolm Turnbull's Australia has nothing to do with the kind of protectionist and xenophobic attitudes that Pauline Hanson represents.

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic.

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.