All Quotes

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of popcorn.
‐‐ John Eldredge

The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.
‐‐ Jane Leavy

The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
‐‐ Laurence Housman

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

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

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.'
‐‐ Alexander Lowen

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
‐‐ Don DeLillo

The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.'
‐‐ Scott Anderson

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
‐‐ Albert Camus

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
‐‐ Edith Hamilton

The modern model of misogyny has to do with marginalizing people who are sexual and thinking of them as dumb, or not serious, or not cool or tweedy enough to take seriously, for fear of seeming like one of the guys from 'Jersey Shore.' The sex is so much more present in sexism than, I think, ever before.
‐‐ Julie Klausner

The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
‐‐ Kate Williams

The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
‐‐ Fatema Mernissi

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
‐‐ Huston Smith

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
‐‐ Amy Vanderbilt

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
‐‐ Georges Bernanos

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.
‐‐ Linton Kwesi Johnson

The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
‐‐ Dan Auerbach

The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
‐‐ Max Weber

The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
‐‐ Herbert Read

The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.
‐‐ Kate Reardon

The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.
‐‐ Nigella Lawson

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.
‐‐ Jose Andres

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
‐‐ Auguste Rodin

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
‐‐ Todd Gitlin

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.
‐‐ Joe Pantoliano

The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.
‐‐ Joseph Brant

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.
‐‐ Kenneth Grahame

The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
‐‐ Eric Berne

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
‐‐ Raymond Chandler

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
‐‐ Raymond Chandler

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
‐‐ Hilaire Belloc

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
‐‐ Gareth Gates

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
‐‐ Richard Avedon

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.
‐‐ Akon