Modern Quotes - Page 25

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the marketplace, brutality, race - I'm not sure I have enough of a sense in aggregate of what the dominant novelists are doing to comment on why less do, or if less do. Maybe that's partly because I don't feel woven into any kind of fabric of contemporaries; I just read what I read, and do what I do.

Modern morality is all about perception.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.