Quotes About Modern

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, many educated Europeans saw Greece not as the obscure, impoverished, and backward province of the Ottoman Empire it was, but as the birthplace of the most important ancient civilization, whose values shaped and defined modern Europe.

Most likely, this perception is an artifact emerging from the contrast between an idealized ancient Greece and its real modern version.

I can't believe the phone has its own room!

Maar alles wat niet te maken heeft met de problemen van de huidige tijd, blijft beneden onze strenge maatstaf voor wat wezenlijk is.

Struck down by the kind of nervous distress known only to the most modern of artists and then only those with a private income

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Like it or not, today we are all pioneers, picking our way through uncharted and unstable territory. The old rules are no longer reliable guides to work out modern gender roles and build a secure foundation for marriage. Wherever it is that people want to end up in their family relations today, even if they are totally committed to creating a so-called traditional marrige, they have to get there by a different route from the past.

To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

These Days, Keeping Anything "Simple" Is The Most "Complex" Task To Do....

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.

It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.

A patchwork of expedients, conflicting principles, innovations nobody understood, holdovers that ought to have been taken off the books years ago. Yet in the midst of modern confusion, fundamental

Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.

He didn't understand why he always saw people typing feverishly on their phones. He was sure it was some sort of warning, a sign of the decline

sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new

There's always a Starbucks around.