Modern Quotes - Page 23

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in a furniture factory was bloody busy! That's just modern life. It's not a downside, you just have to be organised and keep things in perspective.

I don't really like the bands that think they're still in 1982. It's boring. When retro sounds are combined with a modern approach, it can be great.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

I love Modern Family but it's among a handful of favorite shows.

One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the deliberation with which Archimedes approaches the solution of any one of his main problems.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

That's a hard one because right now it seems that all I'm watching is Teletoons and Nickelodeon. You know what I love? I love Criminal Minds. I love CSI. Those are my kind of shows. I also love Modern Family...MasterChef, I'm huge into that. I'm a big Gordon Ramsay fan...I don't get a whole lot of time to watch anything but, if I can, those are some of the ones that I do tend to watch.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.