Modern Quotes
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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
C. Wright Mills -
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
Orson Pratt
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Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.
Dalai Lama -
There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
Irvine Welsh -
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Walter Pater -
My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.
Frances Bean Cobain -
Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Modern man has lost the option of silence.
William S. Burroughs
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
Oscar Wilde -
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
Gary Haugen -
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
Garet Garrett -
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
Eminem -
If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.
Ophelia Lovibond -
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
Tom Stoppard
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
Oscar Wilde -
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
William Halsey -
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
Dan Hicks -
People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion -
The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
Barton Gellman
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
Frances O'Connor -
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
Oscar Wilde -
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
Oscar Wilde -
Hungary has no raw materials and no major energy sources; we have some agricultural background. So what we produce here in Hungary is the result of our labor and minds, and then we have to sell it to the world. If we are not able to do that, if we are not innovative enough, if we are not modern and open enough, we can't do that.
Viktor Orban