Quotes About Modern

In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

I love telling the experience of a black male in America, but modern, not always having to go back to a period piece to remind people where we come from. It's more a modern sense of where we are today and where we want to go in the future. So I try to choose projects somewhere around that space.

I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.

The reason renewables can't power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought they could.

It's almost like a chintzy floral that I play on, and sometimes it can get a bad rep. It doesn't necessarily feel modern, but with different silhouettes and cuts, it can.

The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest.

Obamacare's a disaster. But the answer is not to simply return to the way things were before. The answer is to repeal and replace Obamacare with modern, market-centered reforms.

Ive been lucky with my stepkids. They were little when we met so theyve always accepted me. Having a stepfamily is so much more common these days and its nice to report I dont have a lot of problems.

I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I am particularly proud to represent such an audacious archetype of woman.

People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.

I'm most concerned with committing to characters that contribute to more complex, modern and dynamic Asian-American representation on screen.

My gallery represents a lot of figurative artists.

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

London imbued me with an appreciation of the beauty and value of history in general. As it has evolved and grown, the city has created iconic modern buildings that look perfect as they sit alongside ancient ones.

I don't have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to.

In a way, our family is our modern identity.

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

This low-fat idea that's been drummed into our heads and bellies is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills.

I'm a bit of a digital imbecile.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.