Best Our Modern Sayings
95 Our Modern quotes by 91 unique authors
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Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no…
— Carl Rogers
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Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities…
— Philip Yancey
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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an…
— Victor Pinchuk
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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the…
— Victor Hugo
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Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is…
— Rachel Carson
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Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.
— Frederick Lenz
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Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
— Clint Eastwood
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It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
— Wynton Marsalis
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Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of…
— Ezra Miller
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It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
— Henry A. Wallace
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But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries…
— Sidney Poitier
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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
— Michael Crichton
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Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I don't question our exsistence, I just question our modern needs.
— Eddie Vedder
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A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America?…
— Rick Riordan
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates…
— Unknown Author
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine- tenths of our intellectuals can't read any…
— Randall Jarrell
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I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide…
— David J. C. MacKay
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The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.
— George Blagden
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The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or not the game…
— Charlie Pierce
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The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.
— Vint Cerf
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I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number…
— Brad Thor
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