Modern Quotes

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.

But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.