Quotes About Modern

All of the modern counseling vernacular is really not dealing with the root issue of idolatry. Someone or something's preeminent rather than God.

He had downloaded his content and uninserted his floppy;

Republicans have gone from being a party that touted virtue to being the most squalid and grubby expression of institutionalized self-interest in the modern history of the American republic.

Better the self-torture of a godless Protestant conscience than the fantasies of a modern Prometheus.

Everywhere I went in Africa it was the same story. Foreign-funded NGOs, supported mainly by donors in Europe, were delaying or blocking the development not just of biotechnology but of modern agriculture generally across the continent.

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

Indeed, the modern arguments about the necessities and virtues of government control over the individual are but malign echoes of utopian prescriptions through the ages, which attempted to define subjugation as the most transcendent state of man.

Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, 'man-bags' or 'manscara'. Or about men becoming 'girlie' or 'gay'. It's about men becoming everything. To themselves. In much the way that women have been for some time. It's the end of the sexual division of bathroom and bedroom labour. It's the end of sexuality as we've known it.

that is what is tremendously missing from modern Christianity: Tangible gratitude for God's grace.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.

The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

I have a fax machine with "fax waiting".

All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.

Phones are only good for ordering pizza and telling someone you're running late

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional.

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.