Top 1200 Modern Conveniences Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

Modern morality is all about perception.

The word 'modern' is a cliche.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

To be modern is to be aware of what is going on.

Modern culture is a tremendous force.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

I'm not good at the modern world.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

Abortion is 'the great modern sin.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

Modern cars I don't like so much.

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.

We are the modern day gladiators.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

I really enjoy working on 'Modern Family.'

You are born modern, you do not become so.

I wear modern... vintage.

I'm a modern-day hippie.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written

I much prefer the modern world.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

It's modern-day slavery.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.

I love to collect modern art.

A modern school where football is taught.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

A turning point in modern history.

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

Most modern comedy is crap.

The classic literature is always modern.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic career and close your mind and become a constant fundamentalist, or you give up your religion and become a citizen of the modern world and get a modern education, or just spend the rest of your life balancing the two things together, forcing them into a dialogue.

My political tradition is on the left, but I think that more modern leftists, they sometimes get stuck with this vision of large government and social benefits and everything and that's against what is my position, because I think that the ultimate vision of Marx, Engels, and those people was to eliminate government entities and to give as much power to the people. And in modern standing that means direct democracy, that means all the power to the communities, it means gradually eliminating all government oppression on the society. And 100 years ago, leftists' major allies were labor unions.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

London is a modern Babylon.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

I love the modern technology now.

I can be very modern and experimental.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

I'm a modern-day renaissance man.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

If I can help it, I don't go to modern doctors.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.