Top 1200 Modern-Day Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

In modern-day cricket, the role of the first three to four batsmen has become very crucial.

I love being on 'Modern Family.' One of my favorite things is looking forward to going to work every day.

They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

The buying and selling of women, girls and boys is a frightening modern day form of slavery that must be stopped.

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.

I'd say I play on old world couture as opposed to modern day bridal; there's something very timeless and appealing in that.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.

More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking.

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.

The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods

I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.

Although I play a modern-day girl in Brahma,' there are portions in the second half that require me to shed that image.

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.

Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.

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

I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what a genius is - the thing of a genius. The dresses, the tiny heels, the Cardin look, the boys dressed up as Italian gigolos - it was divine, very modern. [Michelangelo] Antonioni, I loved and I realized: how modern.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

I in no way, shape, or form envision myself as the modern-day Ozzy Osbourne - nobody can.

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.

If I was on a 'Modern Family' kind of show, and they said, 'You have to say that the burger is $5.55; Have a good day!'... I could do that!

Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

Gas prices and train fares seem to be the two commodities for modern British life that base their prices on a whim, or numbers plucked out of thin air, without a thought to the real cost to those for whom those price hikes mean unimaginable sacrifices in their day to day lives.

It's amazing what a resource modern technology is now for making ballets, and I film my rehearsals almost every day.

I'll keep creating modern, deep, rich and adventurous colors and products that inspire creative expression every day.

I did a film called 'Days and Nights,' which is a modern-day retelling of and inspired by Chekhov's 'The Seagull.'

As a modern-day role model, I'd have to go for Tiger Woods. I'm also a massive Sachin Tendulkar fan.

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

You have so many modern goalkeepers, and they're all different. There's not just one type of modern goalkeeper.

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

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

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

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.

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

It is a big challenge as a spinner to play modern day cricket, where you have to have five players in the circle.

You need to decide that you're going to use a story to enlighten and inspire people in the modern day.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

If you knew my life and understood where I came from, you would agree that Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a modern day business miracle.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

That's what really concerns me about the modern-day terrorists that we face is this global expansion.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

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

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.