Goldfeders Modern Quotes

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. ~ Emma Watson

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take? ~ E.M. Delafield

It's modern day. It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are modern cars in it, modern people, modern clothes, modern talk. We wrote 'Valentine' to sort of pay tribute to all the old slasher movies that we grew up with and I think that we did that. ~ Todd Farmer

You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly. ~ Oscar Wilde

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it. ~ Mike Curran

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. ~ Benedict Cumberbatch

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science. ~ Albert Einstein

We are the modern day gladiators. ~ Tito Ortiz

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield. ~ Susan Davis

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means, ~ Alasdair MacIntyre

We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. ~ Marc Gafni

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche. ~ Carl Jung

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

In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes. ~ Dave Barry

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. ~ Kiran Desai

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society. ~ Rem Koolhaas

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people. ~ Will Cuppy

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left. ~ Robert Heilbroner

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations. ~ David Hume

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. ~ Bertrand Russell

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end. ~ Philip Larkin

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much. ~ Frank Knox

You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. ~ Edward Hopper

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The new Ann Taylor is for modern women who want to take on the world in style. ~ Demi Moore

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world. ~ Vladimir Putin

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. ~ Terence McKenna

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors. ~ Samuel Richardson

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. ~ Paul Bert

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world. ~ Lin Yutang

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. ~ Salvador Dali

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

The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic. ~ Julian Whitaker

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life. ~ Alexander Rodchenko

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

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. ~ Neel Burton

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events. ~ Taner Edis

People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it. ~ Alexei Maxim Russell

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. ~ Ernest Becker

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society. ~ Alan Dershowitz

I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me. ~ Theo Rossi

This modern interpretation of Machiavelli's landmark work is perhaps more useful for the modern reader than the original text. His dense ideas have been boiled down to their essence and presented in language that can be easily grasped by the modern mind. ~ Brandon Musk

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity. ~ Pranab Mukherjee

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. ~ Henry Rollins

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change. ~ John Feldmann

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business. ~ Ursula Burns

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth. ~ Vaclav Havel

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them. ~ Marilyn Johnson

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it. ~ Robertson Davies

The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ. ~ Joseph Goebbels

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason. ~ Emily Greene Balch

I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from. ~ David Batstone

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ~ Bertrand Russell

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

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art. ~ Gloria Trevi

Modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation. ~ Fran Lebowitz

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. ~ Henry A. Wallace

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena. ~ Bruce Lipton

I much prefer the modern world. ~ Keith Henson

There's an interesting mix to 'Robin Hood' because it's kind of modern but medieval. There is a blend of adventure with a very modern feel. ~ Joanne Froggatt

Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity. ~ Tarek Saab

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling. ~ Eric Hoffer

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times. ~ Julian Assange

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost. ~ Maynard Webb

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. ~ Oscar Wilde

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation. ~ Helen Keller

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. ~ David Seabury

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all. ~ Angelique Kidjo

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

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. ~ David Strathairn

The modern day soup line is a check in the mail. ~ David I. Rozenberg

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. ~ Muammar Al-Gaddafi

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details. ~ Hermann Weyl

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. ~ Christopher Lasch

The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business. ~ Corinne Maier

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy. ~ Frederick Forsyth

I am somewhere in the middle of a village with all the modern amenities. There's something missing. Life? I reckon.... ~ Manasa Rao

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that. ~ Banksy

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake. ~ Bertrand Russell

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner! ~ Red Buttons

When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all like WHAT?! ~ Modern Family

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways. ~ Chris Ware

The ancient world was fairly modern for its time. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media. ~ D. James Kennedy

The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes. ~ Susan Blackmore

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. ~ Nicholas Eberstadt

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets. ~ Mason Cooley

I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person. ~ Mayim Bialik

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political
especially that which pretends not to be. ~ Edward Abbey

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism. ~ Swami Vivekananda

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world. ~ Edith Hamilton

We lack rituals in this modern world. ~ Elizabeth McGovern

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore. ~ Larry Wall

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the
basic tyrant of the modern age. ~ Edward Abbey