Modern Quotes

3241 Modern quotes by 2096 unique authors

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in… — Ralph Lauren
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers. — Joseph Fiennes
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind… — Leonard Maltin
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and… — Harry Seidler
The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts. — Hal Boyle
There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one is directed towards… — Theo van Doesburg
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. — John Buchanan Robinson
Modern money is almost altogether credit money. — John Buchanan Robinson
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense. — John Buchanan Robinson
The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money… — Nevil Shute
In this modern day and age, we have instant coffee, instant tea - instant disbelief. That's the reason we will never become anything. It is… — Glenn Turner
On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his respect… — Millar Burrows
Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that… — Millar Burrows
The many varieties and wonderful colors of the modern dahlia make it a totally different flower from the one our grandmothers knew. The names are… — Helena Rutherfurd Ely
In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch… — Henry Petroski
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred… — H. Allen Smith
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons… — David Bentley Hart
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison… — David Bentley Hart
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious… — Robert E. Ornstein
I must settle for freedom in this modern time — Leila Aboulela
A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided… — Jules de Goncourt
I don't listen to much modern composition. — Colin Greenwood
A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions. — Haim Ginott
Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true.… — Karen Kain

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