Top 1200 Modern Conveniences Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

I actually like social media, and I recognize what modern technology serves.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

Creative destruction is an increasingly prominent feature of modern medical practice.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

I was born in 1989. I literally watched 'Rocko's Modern Life' on live television.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

I like movies that project a dilemma of modern men and women who are overwhelmed by the system.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

All the good modern parts go to Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant.

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.

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

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy.

The modern girl I played in 'Idhu'... came quite naturally to me.

True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

No, the mullet's gone, I've have a nice blonde, spiky haircut, but it's quite modern.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. 3) Illogical persons are despised. Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. And: 1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste. 2) No modern poetry is free from affectation. 3) All of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles. 4) No affected poetry is popular among people of taste. 5) Only a modern poem would be on the subject of soap bubbles. Therefore, all your poems are uninteresting.

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

I don't think we are modern if we need to tie a rakhi to someone just so that we can be friends?

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.

The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.

The modern marketer is: an experimenter, a lover of data, a content creator, a justifier of ROI.

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

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