Modern Quotes

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.

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.

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.