Modern Quotes - Page 28

• From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy.

  Francis George

  Christian, Sacrifice, Love Is

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too.

  Francis George

  Violence, Sometimes, Reason

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Thinking, Play, Special

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director needs a crew - the writer, the producer, etcetera - and to have that, he needs money.

  Roger Corman

  Art, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it's not just all one-way traffic.

  Jarvis Cocker

  World, Way, Problem

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

  Henry Cavill

  Stuff, Because I Can, Imagery

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Artist, Space

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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 think he [King Edward] was a modernizer who was a new thinker. The things he intended to do - unify the country, expand it all from coast to coast - were very modern and radical in those days. Also, the fact that he married who he did and that he managed to deal with the consequences and ramifications of that marriage and stay on the throne until the day he died, that shows skill.

  Max Irons

  Country, Kings, Thinking

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Confused, Sides, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.

  Iris Apfel

  Connections, Looks, Use

  Source: www.marieclaire.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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• The trouble with a lot of modern theology and a lot of modern thinking about God, is that we think of God a sort of being like ourselves, but bigger and better with likes and dislikes similar to our own.

  Karen Armstrong

  Thinking, Likes And Dislikes, Bigger And Better

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.

  Rakim

  Writing, Culture, Records

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Several months ago, out of the blue, a company named "Cingular" started sending me bills. I had never heard of Cingular, and I honestly did not know what these bills were for, so I put them in the pile where I keep documents that I intend to scrutinize more carefully later on, after my death. Then I started seeing TV commercials for Cingular, but of course they did not make it clear what Cingular is, because the First Rule of Modern Advertising is: "Never reveal what you are advertising."

  Dave Barry

  Blue, Bills, Months

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• The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Thinking, Done

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.11, Psychology Press

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• Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Thinking, Mind, Church

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• A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Beautiful, Men, Illumination

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• In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Effort, Physics, Found

  The Feynman Lectures on Physics (pp. 6-1 1)

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution.

  James Truslow Adams

  Confused, Men, Years

  "To 'Be' or to 'DO'" Forum, Volume LXXXI, No. 6, June 1929.

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• In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Stars, Hero, Epic

  "What If Apollo 11 Failed? President Nixon Had Speech Ready" by Nola Taylor Redd, www.space.com. July 22, 2014.

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• The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.

  Karel Capek

  Civilization, Perfect, Machines

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• We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?

  Edward Abbey

  Suicide, Book, Home

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• No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Years, Civilization, Effort

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.210, Best Books on

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• There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

  Pepe Romero

  Order, Good And Bad, Composer

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