Quotes About Modern

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today's life.

I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

In short, early Homo sapiens had adquired the cognitive ability to enter into a conversation with the gods, just as modern Homo sapiens does today.

Imogen was a New York City child: open-minded in a way Jule had seen only on television, apparently utterly confident in her own desirability as a friend and hostess.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.