Quotes About Modern

pues lo que se puso en cuestión fue precisamente la certeza del destino de grandeza y de la excepcionalidad del país que se había consolidado durante los procesos de constitución del Estado moderno en 1880. En el plano cultural, por el contrario, se registraron respuestas creativas a esos mismos sucesos que signaron la época.

We are a microwave generation serving a Crock-Pot God.

Obesity, according to common wisdom, points to a high-fat diet. But fat consumption, whether saturated or unsaturated, causes no release of insulin. There's no possibility of storing fat in fat cells unless insulin opens the receptors, and only eating sugar can make that happen. That's why Type I diabetics who have no insulin die emaciated. Obesity is simply a different symptom of the same syndrome that causes everything else that plagues modern man.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

The concept of the secular cannot do without the idea of religion.

As for me, I'm modern and traditional at the same time. I, too, believe in intimacy—who doesn't? But I also believe in commitment. Marriage is, as she says, "a peculiar institution." My parents' divorce made it clear what kinds of raw deals are brokered at the altar. But right now, in America, marriage is the closest thing to what I want.

Sometimes I envy the children today with all their tae kwon do, psychotherapy, and language immersion, but at the same time, I appreciate that back then being little meant you really didn't have to do anything but stay alive and have fun.

but she can't deny the realities of modern neuropharmacology: if her brain is flooded with oxytocin every time she's training Sophonce digients, it's going to have an effect on her feelings toward them whether she wants it to or not.

we're seeing more beauty in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime. And the result is that beauty is slowly ruining our lives.

But for me, science is the true modern cathedral, an edifice of knowledge every bit as majestic as anything made of stone.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them - more information, more complexity; more stories, more stuff; more.

I'm not even speaking to people any more; I just want to be reading my Kindle the whole time!

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

I came in with a very specific idea about what a Doctor Strange movie should be, which was rooted in the comics, and I thought it should be as weird and as visually ambitious compared to modern comic book movies as the comic was when it showed up in the '60s compared to other comic books at the time.

He is better than me in everything. I can only learn from Simone: he is a modern coach and seeing his Lazio side is a spectacle.

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.

I believed that the numbers and processes of modern campaigning that revolve around the meticulous use of data would matter in 2016. I believed Trump was merely a spectacle, a political sideshow who would be dispatched by the well-funded and the well-staffed major campaigns.