Modern Quotes · Page 39

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

— Oscar Wilde

“The modern world is insanity disguised as progress.”

— Steven Magee

People think that I live in a space pod, but it's pretty mid-century modern.

— Fred Schneider

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

— Anthony Daniels

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

— William J. Clinton

“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.”

— Craig Damrauer

Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts.

— Guy Standing

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

— Helen Keller

My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.

— Alessandro Michele

“This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.”

— Amit Kalantri

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of…

— Ronald Knox

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

— Wallace Stevens

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

This is what I wanted the business to be when I started it: a lot of black, a lot of luxurious materials,…

— Kenneth Cole

It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern…

— Matt Ridley

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

— Josh Hartnett

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and…

— Paul Outerbridge

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for…

— A. N. Wilson

The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it…

— Philip Yancey

If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be…

— Jane Roberts

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither…

— Sydney J. Harris

One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods…

— Thomas Little Heath

If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the…

— Wallace Pratt

No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only…

— Calvin Coolidge

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as…

— Raymond Sokolov

Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into…

— James Berardinelli

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these…

— James Truslow Adams

[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with…

— Jack London

Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes,…

— Anthony Giddens

A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such…

— Dalai Lama

I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy…

— Thomas Huxley

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

— Salvador Dali

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

— Learned Hand

When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the modern Southern GOP was born.

— Steve Kornacki

Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? … Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals,

— Terry Wogan

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

— Andrew Hoberek

In the modern game, players need to train harder than they did in my day.

— Roberto Carlos

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

— John Buchanan Robinson

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

— Coleman Hawkins