Modern Quotes - Page 24

With Spurr, I like to think we're a modern, European-influenced brand that does luxurious, handcrafted, and wearable pieces.

Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved religiously in the pre-modern period.

I’ve even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf)

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

I go straight for Seinfeld, Modern Family, Friends, and Golden Girls. Those are my pillars of strength on TV.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War, but in the modern times this country has never been more divided.

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

William Hague, the world's favourite hairline.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

I, from the luxury of my laptop computer, can summon extraordinary bargains on everything I want, and I can also move my savings anywhere. This ability to choose more broadly and to switch more easily is the central fact of modern economic life.

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

A turning point in modern history.

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those of lust.