Modern Quotes

3241 Modern quotes by 2096 unique authors

They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty… — Dawn Ostroff
No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated .… — Ellen Glasgow
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that… — Manuel Puig
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. — Thom Mayne
We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government. — George Washington
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them… — John Wolcot
When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite… — Evan Dando
I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman. — Jerry Harrison
Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times… — Jean Jaures
Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion… — Carl Sagan
In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity. — Edward Leigh
There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed… — Henry Adams
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone. — William Beveridge
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to… — Walter F. Mondale
The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory. — Dick Morris
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and… — John Peter Zenger
There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it… — John F. Kennedy
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always. — John Derbyshire
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time. — Douglas Coupland
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. — Josiah Stamp
I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life. — Unknown Author
Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy. — Bertrand Russell
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right. — Milton S. Eisenhower

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