Modern Quotes

3241 Modern quotes by 2096 unique authors

The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only… — Will Smith
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an… — Frederick Soddy
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for… — Albert Einstein
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement… — Mark Twain
It is our pride that the Great Satan (U.S.) and the head of despotism, corruption and arrogance in modern times considers us as an enemy… — Hassan Nasrallah
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,… — Wendell Berry
For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course… — Frederick Soddy
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which… — Octavio Paz
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. — John R. Rice
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in… — Peter L. Berger
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. — John Fowles
The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever… — Adela Rogers St. Johns
So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing,… — Harold Lasswell
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden… — King Hussein I
I think in any organisation it's right to set out what you stand for, what you're fighting for and bring that together in one document… — David Cameron
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent… — George Bernard Shaw
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which… — Abdoulaye Wade
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day… — John Baldacci
The Growth and Opportunity Project is the most successful reexamination of a national party in modern times. Te disciplined focus of Chairman Reince Priebus has… — Newt Gingrich
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.… — Ian Rankin
Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end. — Philip Larkin

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