Quotes About Modern

Jesus,' I whispered. 'An ancient messiah figure,' said the comlog. 'Religions based on his purported teachings include Christianity, Zen-Christianity, ancient and modern Catholicism, and such Protestant sects as . . .' 'Shut up,' I said. 'Good child mode.' This command had the comlog speak only when spoken to.

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair which Hopkins called carrion comfort.

Daniel Defoe—arguably the most prolific writer in the English language and considered by many the father of the novel and the founder of modern journalism—

Los niños de hoy en día crecen en una nueva realidad, una realidad en la que están muy desconectados de sus semejantes y mucho más conectados que nunca, por el contrario, con las máquinas, una situación que, por razones muy diversas, resulta inquietante.

Ética para un nuevo milenio. Si

using a home computer, or commuting. On average

And with each new comfort, with each new modern convenience, man slowly dies. He removes himself from his humanity.

Uber drivers, 60 percent of whom have other jobs, have become prime examples for what became known as the "gig economy." Both Uber and Lyft also rolled out modern versions of carpooling services that match up a rider with another rider in close proximity headed to nearby destinations.

We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

Tailored jackets with jeans is a great look for all ages. Dress up with a heel and pretty shirt, or just wear a smart T-shirt under the jacket.

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

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.