Quotes About Modern

But Murdoch is, more accurately, not a modern journalist but the last representative from an era when a newspaper was its own advertisement, when it had to sell itself.

Of the many Trump gashes in modern major-power governing, you could certainly drive a Trojan horse through his lack of foreign policy particulars and relationships.

There was, curiously, general agreement in the West Wing that Donald Trump, the media president, had one of the most dysfunctional communication operations in modern White House history.

the firing of FBI director James Comey may be the most consequential move ever made by a modern president acting entirely on his own.

There are few modern political variables more disruptive than a dedicated prosecutor

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

A truly modern man, William Rackham is what might be called a superstitious atheist Christian; that is, he believes in a God who, while He may no longer be responsible for the sun rising, the saving of the Queen or the provision of daily bread, is still the prime suspect when anything goes wrong.

I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.

I once met a girl – a pretty, attractive girl – who told me she fantasised about Jean-François Copé. It took me several days to get over it. Really, with girls today, all bets are off.

Scenes unworthy of a modern country', wrote the journalist without realising that they were in fact the proof that France was becoming a modern country, that only an authentically modern country was capable of treating old people purely as rubbish.

He was a kind of éminence grise, a political leader, in a clandestine movement. Everyone knows there are girls who go for that kind of thing. There are girls who go for Huysmanists, for that matter. I once met a girl -- a pretty, attractive girl -- who told me she fantasized about Jean-François Copé. It took me several days to get over it. Really, with girls today, all bets are off.

Fenómeno raro, artificial y tardío, el amor sólo puede nacer en condiciones mentales especiales, que pocas veces se reúnen, y que son de todo punto opuestas a la libertad de costumbres que caracteriza la época moderna.

Ninguna civilización, ninguna época han sido capaces de desarrollar en los hombres tal cantidad de amargura. Desde este punto de vista, vivimos tiempos sin precedentes. Si hubiera que resumir el estado mental contemporáneo en una palabra yo elegiría, sin dudarlo, amargura.

Ce qui donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire; c'était la télévision.

Modern life is very difficult for people who are unprepared. But this new environment will eventually facilitate more realistic relationships between people.

Jaden felt their boredom, their tired eternity. Beyond that, she felt their dying essence. They were immortal—all-powerful beings—and yet they were powerless against the onslaught of ever-changing time. They were lost in a modern world, one they didn't have the energy to understand. And, in being lost, they were immobilized against it. Not even their judgments could assuage their exhausted wisdom of forever.

No longer stereotypes, these screen women had become complicated. This combination of sensuality, independence and playfulness, made them fascinating to watch and completely modern.

The three horrors of modern life — talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

the apathy of many of the people around us is not due to their being physically or mentally exhausted. The problem seems to lie more in the modern worker's relation to his job, with the way he perceives his goals in relation to it.

One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into enjoyment. Compared

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.

who never thought to give her a call, even though, it seemed, they lived their entire lives through their phones.

Among modern idols the worst is the homeland Its robe is the shroud of religion