Modern famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
-- Abraham Maslow -
I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.
-- Adam Sandler -
The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
-- Agnes de Mille -
We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.
-- Albert Camus -
You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.
-- Albert Hadley -
Are science and Christianity friends? The answer to that is an emphatic yes, for any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God's revelation. But this science is not naturalistic, while modern science usually is.
-- Albert Mohler -
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.
-- Alexander Lebedev -
I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
-- Alexander McQueen -
Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.
-- Alexander Stille -
In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.
-- Ali Gomaa -
The self is the modern substitute for the soul.
-- Allan Bloom -
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
-- Amy Vanderbilt -
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
-- Andre Breton -
I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.
-- Andre Rieu -
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.
-- Andrew Lo -
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
-- Andrew Motion -
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
-- Andrew Weil -
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.
-- Ann Bridge -
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
-- Anthony Burgess -
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
-- Anthony Burgess -
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western
-- Armand Assante -
That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
-- Arne Jacobsen -
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
-- Arnold Schoenberg -
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
-- Arthur Cayley -
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
-- Arthur Honegger -
In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.
-- Arvid Carlsson -
Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.
-- Attila Kotanyi -
Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.
-- Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn -
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
-- Barbara Walters -
The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.
-- Barnett Newman -
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
-- Bertrand Russell -
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I'm a post-modern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically.
-- Bill Bailey -
The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
-- Bill Gaede -
For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
-- Boris Spassky -
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
-- Boris Spassky -
Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.
-- Bruce Feiler -
Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.
-- Bryan Caplan -
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
-- C. S. Lewis -
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
-- Carl Schmitt -
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.
-- Cate Blanchett -
The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.
-- Charlotte Gerson -
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
-- Chris Stringer -
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
-- Christopher Lasch -
The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
-- Clara Zetkin -
The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
-- Claudio Monteverdi -
I don't listen to much modern composition.
-- Colin Greenwood -
Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.
-- Corinne Maier -
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
-- Dan Stevens -
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
-- Dana Carvey -
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.
-- Dana Gioia -
The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
-- Daniel Tosh -
Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.
-- David Bressoud -
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
-- David Copperfield -
We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
-- David Sarnoff -
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.
-- David Seabury -
I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.
-- Deborah Bull -
Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
-- Deepak Chopra -
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -
A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...
-- Dorothy Nevill -
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
-- Douglas Coupland -
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?
-- Duke Ellington -
But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment
-- Duncan Sheik -
Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?
-- E. M. Delafield -
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
-- Edith Sitwell -
In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
-- Edward Abbey -
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
-- Edward Hopper -
In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.
-- Edward Leigh -
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
-- Egon Schiele -
My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess.
-- Elisa Jimenez -
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
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'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.
-- Emily Procter -
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare
-- Eminem -
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
-- Eric Allin Cornell -
Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.
-- Eric Bolling -
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.
-- Ernest Gellner -
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
-- Eugene V. Debs
