Modern Quotes - Page 21

I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background and could have chosen to do a lot of other things, and has this uber-feminine, modern woman mentality, but works this job.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

What is the English for 'Refreshing towelette'?

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register (NAR), which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury "the modern Domesday Book".

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.