Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Jane Gardam

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

In just over 100 years, the 'Southern Continent' has sprouted into a modern country.

Morena Baccarin

I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Epictetus

You lose only the things you have

Support for the modern serviceman or woman starts from the skin out,

Karan Johar

It's a look at modern marriages, the reasons why people get married.

Noam Chomsky

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

Joe Buck

Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander.

Pranab Mukherjee

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

Pranab Mukherjee

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Oscar Wilde

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

John Crowe Ransom

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

John Fowles

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

Kate Adie

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

John B. S. Haldane

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

James Thurber

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.