Quotes About Modernity

Static strikers do not exist anymore.

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

I still wear minis and cardigans, but I think I'll steer away from shoulder pads.

science is the salvation narrative of modernity.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, this palace hotel on the spacious Place Vendôme in the city's first arrondissement, or "district," had been an international symbol of luxury and all that was glamorous about modernity,

For those who had lived as guests at the Hôtel Ritz during the German occupation, the liberation was the end of one story about luxury and modernity and Paris. It was the passing of the generation that had changed the shape of the future in the 1910s through the 1930s.

They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988.

Ser moderno é tratar de sabotar os lugares-comuns de seu tempo. Programa complexo: o nosso tende a não passar de uma proliferação de lugares comuns. O espírito de época, se pudermos chamar assim, é uma montagem sem pé nem cabeça de lugares-comuns.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

any case, Oakeshott found he could enjoy the world, in spite of living 'after Auschwitz' and in the midst of 'the crisis of modernity.

But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe.

The Aztecs, it is often alluded and condemned, sacrificed human bodies to keep the Sun ongoing. Western modernity sacrifices (and it is accepted) whatever is needed to keep Civilization ongoing.

La sencillez es la máxima sofisticación».

will not occur overnight. But it will occur soon—in but two or three generations, a time not much further removed from ours today than the founding of Israel 50 years ago. V. ISRAELI EXCEPTIONALISM Israel is different. In Israel the great temptation of modernity—assimilation—simply does not exist. Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity:

The rise of modernity corresponded with the decline of an approach that regarded the created order as sacramental in character. The patristic and medieval mind recognized that the heavenly reality of the Word of God constituted an eternal mystery; the observable appearances of creation pointed to and participated in this mystery.

Once modernity abandoned a participatory or sacramental view of reality, the created order became unmoored from its origin in God, and the material cosmos began its precarious drift on the flux of nihilistic waves.3

have been more recently

sometime around the turn of the seventeenth century there began what is often called the modern period, or modernity.[1] It lasted, roughly, until sometime in the late twentieth century.

We are born in both intellectual and moral darkness. We need the influence of the Holy Spirit—in the life of Jesus Christ, in the Bible, in the historical church, and in our own consciences—to enlighten us. Since modernity rejected all these things, it's no wonder that it abounded in as much evil and discord as it has.

We are being solidified by modernity into states that, in prior eras, would have been more ephemeral.

He disliked English, not because they had invaded his country, but because of the effort required to understand their different languages and customs. At the same time, he was in no hurry for them to leave, for he admired them, most of the time, not for the modernity they were establishing but for the business opportunities they brought with them.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.