Modern Quotes · Page 179

By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't…

— Michael Stipe

I like to think of myself as a modern defender rather than old school.

— Aymeric Laporte

I'm not a great fan of the modern style of personal agonising, which crops up a bit too often for my liking.

— Denis Norden

All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian…

— David Novak

There is snobbery in the idea that the modern cult of celebrity has not touched the lofty realm of letters. We are…

— Zia Haider Rahman

I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what…

— Manolo Blahnik

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

— Richard Flanagan

Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.

— Paul Harvey

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

— Anne Robinson

We have to get awakened to the fact that in recent decades, great destruction has been caused to our moral values as…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that…

— Goldwin Smith

The biblical writers assumed many things about reality that modern, Western people do not assume because we've been conditioned by our cultures…

— Roger E. Olson

I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to…

— Albert Einstein

We are living in a Millennial culture that is attacking "patriarchy." The culture in America as zeroed in, and it's been going…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm not good at the modern world.

— Anthony Horowitz

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

— Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our…

— Hamlin Garland

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor…

— Ned Sublette

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

— Ross Kemp

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

— William Ralph Inge

I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes,…

— Caroline Shaw

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

— James Thurber

This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like…

— John Podesta

Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round…

— Esther Perel

How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those…

— Thomas Jefferson