Modern Quotes - Page 17

• In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

  Paul Goodman

  Political, World, Firsts

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.127, New York Review of Books

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• You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Writing, Past, Empathy

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• I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England.  And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.

  John Wesley

  Strong, Prayer, Believe

  John Wesley “John Wesley's The Book of Common Prayer”, Lulu.com

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• The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.

  Eric Burns

  Home, Technology, Irrelevance

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• In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, World, Buying

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• Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

  Paul Johnson

  America, World, Mixtures

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• Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, America, People

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Law, Immigration, Next

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• The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

  Peter Marshall

  Beautiful, Smart, Believe

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• I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

  Henry Rollins

  Fiction, Rely, Lays

  "#tbt An Interview with Henry Rollins". Interview with Eric Stein, www.brothersdepaul.com. January 7, 2015.

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• 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

  Block, Cutting, Russia

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.

  Larry King

  Land, White, Wyoming

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• The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

  Morarji Desai

  Movement, Vegetarian, Ancient

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Play, People

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Teaching, Inspiration

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.89, Vintage

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• I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

  Alan Ball

  Heart, Self, Looks

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• It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.

  William Morris

  Work, Littles, Matter

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6349, Delphi Classics

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• Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

  Lord Byron

  Vanity, May, Example

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.22, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

  Felix Adler

  Struggle, School, Diversity

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

  Francis Bacon

  Usa, Liberty, Modern Life

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• I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

  Abe Lemons

  Football, Years, Games

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

  Taika Waititi

  Hate, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Tragedy, Diagnosis

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Teenager, Latin, New Orleans

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• I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own scores, because I don't come from that world or that period of filmmaking. And so how could I make up my own score on a film like this where it isn't necessarily made up of popular music from the radio or the period; it isn't necessarily classical music. But what if it's modern symphonic music?

  Martin Scorsese

  Years, What If, Lucky

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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