Being Modern Quotes
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Being Modern Quotes & Sayings
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
— Hans Jonas
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
I love being on 'Modern Family.' One of my favorite things is looking forward to going to work every day.
— Rico Rodriguez
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
— Salvador Dali
Political correctness is modern day censorship. This still doesn't justify you in being a douchebag.
— Kevin Focke
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
— D.H. Lawrence
Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?
— E.M. Delafield
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
— Salvador Dali
The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.
— Darcey Steinke
Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.
— Os Guinness
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
— Andrew Weil
He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.
— Oscar Wilde
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
— Meg Rosoff
Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.
— Jonas Gahr Store
I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.
— Coleman Hawkins
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
— J.G. Ballard
When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.
— Bernard Hopkins
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
— Muriel Rukeyser
At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.
— Rebecca Solnit
Be yourself, be in the moment, you're going to be modern
— Paola Antonelli
Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.
— Murray Gell-Mann
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves.
— Will Schwalbe
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
— Wallace Stevens
Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
— Hugh Jackman
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
— Marshall McLuhan
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
— Ahmet Necdet Sezner
Pray state, this day, on one side of a sheet of paper, how the Royal navy is being adapted to meet the conditions of modern warfare.
— Michael Paterson
All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.
— Roland Barthes
Modern marriage has lost its meaningconsequently it is being abolished. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.
— Anne Roiphe
Our modern science acknowledges a Supreme Power, an Invisible Principle, but denies a Supreme Being, or Personal God.
— Helena P Blavasky
All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
— Blaise Pascal
Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.
— David Blunkett
