Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
Oscar Wilde
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Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it.
Oscar Wilde
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
John Buchan
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
Albert Einstein
If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.
Albert Einstein
I expected the pavilion to look more modern and exciting.
Brian Gibson
Johnny U. was the father of modern football, so all of us, including my father, who enjoyed participating, owe that to Johnny.
Art Modell
The modern day witch does her spells over the Internet you know, it's a whole different image of a witch that I see.
Athena Starwoman
It's amazing what modern medicine has done.
Roxanne Steele
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow
There were huge posts beside the road, all twisted up like modern art. I couldn't figure out what they were, and then it dawned on me. They were billboards!
Karen Vanhyfte
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
Roger Waters
It's going to be interesting to see what the director does with this one. It's not going to be your classic Shakespeare play, it's going to be more modern. He's attempting to find a new way to discover the old.
Lucie Kolouchová
What we're really doing is running a modern airline with classic airplanes. Our maintenance efforts have to go well above and beyond what an airline with new airplanes has to do. It's quite a challenge.
Tracy Perkins
It's a harsh reality for Congress, one of its worst-ever moments in modern Brazil.
David Fleischer
One of the problems a modern army faces is that war fighters have to carry around a lot of electrical devices and heavy batteries.
Joel Davis
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
Wilkie Collins
He was an extraordinary thinker who helped shape what the modern spy was, both in his work at MI6 and in his novels.
Andrew Lazar
Our intelligence, co-operation and many other features we have as modern humans developed from our attempts to out-smart the predator.
Robert Sussman
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
Upton Sinclair
A modern commercial bank, a world-class bank, should be a universal bank, should be what we call a comprehensive business because that's the market need.
Guo Shuqing
It's just part of the background of modern life.
Gerry Seifert
PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.
Ambrose Bierce
The company was the great speculator of the modern-day commodity exchanges.
Martin Mayer
We're even showing Crash, a modern-day look at all the diverse cultures and how they (interact) ? that's for the youth, the younger folks, so to speak.
Cecil Adams
We tried to play some of the materials that were here off this modern vocabulary we were dealing with.
Paula Beall
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
Agnes De Mille
There is only one Bride; God is not a bigamist. He took no gentile wife under the Old Covenant, and He will not accept a pale imitation of Old Covenant Israel - modern Judaism - as His wife in the future.
Gary North
This is one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history for media professionals. In addition to those killed, many others have been wounded or narrowly averted death.
Joel Campagna
We play everything from classic rock to modern rock, and our originals which fall somewhere in between.
Jon Costello
Joe approaches modern agriculture with the attitude and passion that surrounds a successful family farmer.
Becky Skillman
Raising money is a reality of modern-day politics.
Barrett Kaiser
With the help of technologies and modern media, the ancient temple will face a more vigorous development era.
Shi Yongxin
The community center is a modern-day equivalent of the way the town square was 100 years ago. It will be a landmark that represents the community.
Jim Larsen
Truthfully, human trafficking is just a polite way to say modern-day slavery.
Cathy Paris
My goal is to relate history to the modern day, ... History can give you an advantage because if you control the past, you control the future.
Jeff Evans
As you go into every area, we have technology and a great number of other things that would be helpful in modern teaching.
Bill Hirsh
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals.
Irving Kristol
Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.
Alain Robert
Generally the other islands need either more modern cables or competition. They need an alternative to the existing cables.
Georges Krebs
Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
Arthur J. Goldberg
The gift represents one of the finest collections of musical manuscripts to be amassed in modern times.
Joseph Polisi
But there's still room for women, and what we see are emerging female athletes and female fans. This is all changing the modern American sports.
Peter Ueberroth
This is what kids do. This is what modern people do for sports. This is a natural progression.
Peter Foley
It has all the modern amenities, but you don't see them. This all feels like it's been here 100 years.
Paula Jenkins
I wanted it (the book) to set my cop a very difficult task, which is to find out `whodunit' without any of the modern aids of DNA testing and the like.
Colleen Mccullough
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut
There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.
Sally Deering
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it AMBIVALENCE: a collision between thought and feeling.
David Seabury
The development of transformative curriculum leadership, supported and aided by modern technology.
George Dennison Prentice
Iacocca was the best-selling business biography in history. Before that we had Peter Drucker, the inventor of modern management.
Jeff Krames
It's important in modern time to do more than teach students to count and read.
Sergei Shapoval
This plan will give us a modern fleet offering maximum flexibility, lower seat-mile costs and greater fuel efficiency.
Margaret Jackson
It's becoming more focused, more modern, better trained, better equipped than it has ever been across the Taiwan Strait.
Bates Gill
When his name is added to those of Pleyel and Kozeluch, Scottish melodies can boast of being harmonized by the greatest luminaries of modern music.
George Thompson
I believe many of you are aware of the use of modern biotechnology in the fields of medicine, agriculture, mining and energy as well as industry.
Peter Siele
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young
I think we have to have traditional roots, but then make things modern for the 90s. I think it makes us more creative by taking traditional concepts and blowing them out a little bit.
Joseph Abboud
I will remember that modern business etiquette is gender-neutral. Whoever gets to a door first should open it.
Marjorie Brody
You wouldn't want to put a modern building next to it when the whole downtown looks that way. It just wouldn't fit in.
Darren Harper
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.
Wes Borland
It's just a classy appearance, with a touch of modern mingling with the realism of the paintings.
Patsy Smith
Now we've got all this modern technology and the test conductors can see the data much easier than we could back in those days.
Prentice Carte
It's sort of to do with Cary Grant in the south of France in the 1930s, that sort of thing -- but not all retro. There we've made it modern because we have modern fabrics.
Betty Jackson
The idea was to show how a modern Japanese family could combine the old and the new.
Barbara Traisman
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
It was probably the greatest singular human endeavor, certainly in modern times, maybe in the history of all mankind.
Gene Cernan
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
Lawrence Clark Powell
France is divorced from the modern world of the 21st century.
Nicolas Baverez
It's fair to say that it probably is the warmest since we have modern meteorological records.
Drew Shindell
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
Naomi Wolf
Music and image has continued to get more extreme as the world gets more extreme. We are the consequence of the modern decaying civilization.
Marilyn Manson
Dissatisfaction with the world in which we live and determination to realize one that shall be better, are the prevailing characteristics of the modern spirit.
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
I think they appreciate that; our modern mining industry sometimes faces a lot of anti-mining bias based on things that were done in the past.
Tom Rathbun
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
Lord William Beveridge
Queen Victoria will be a classically-styled Cunard queen, offering the very best of our heritage, along with the luxury and modern-day comforts.
Carol Marlow
She's a woman of character and morals and discipline. You don't find a lot of that in people in modern times.
Brenda Strong
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
David Lodge
It certainly stands out but I think it spoils the building itself. It'll look more suited on a modern building.
Barbara Anderson
He doesn't have a lot of those annoying affectations of modern jazz bass players.
Wayne Horvitz
We're dead lucky to come here because it's so modern? It was like - wow!
Robyn Mooney
This is what I think is modern. It's like wearing a couture jacket with a pair of jeans.
Karl Lagerfeld
When people walk into a modern home, they don't ask about a library.
Gopal Ahluwalia
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans.
Chris Stringer
Compared to the modern high school athlete, Dom is definitely one-of-a-kind.
Bob Esposito
UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership.
Sir Nicholas Serota
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
Joseph Fiennes
Hospitals in early modern Europe were charitable institutions, designed to provide care and shelter to the sick poor.
Peter Lewis Allen
It has to be this way, and these people have to be a part of modern Europe. That's what they want to do and I believe they will achieve that status.
General Wesley Clark
No company in modern history has come back from the dead like Smith & Wesson.
Russ Thurman
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
Nancy Banks Smith
My passion is to make sure this society is educated in modern science.
Gregory Forbes
If this is the future of modern medicine, there will be a waiting line of private entities to get involved.
Assemblyman Guy Gregg
You won't find an answer on how to run a government, traditional or modern, or how to run the economy or how to run a hospital or a television station by looking to Islam.
Fred Halliday
It's not an easy book. The book challenges the young reader to see the modern world in light of the lessons of the past.
Michael Class
We'd like our kids to have a nice modern facility they could call their own.
Lynn Templeton
He is expert in classical music. He knew the composers and knew their lives. He read their biographies. He knew the subtly of their music. And he knew about modern music and all the modern composers.
Diane Jacobowitz
The modern human communicates better with his mouse than with his mouth.
Paul Carvel
This is where modern computer architectures come in-they make (analyzing this system) possible, while even ten years ago, it was not.
Carl Steefel
She says, blending the musical style of the 1860s with a more modern feel.
Kate Fisher
I decided the opportunity was there and so was the challenge. We're looking to update the facility and make it more modern for the people of the Pee Dee.
Scott Richardson
The scientists, the admin and the public activities have become mixed up. And things like modern disabled access tend to be difficult for us.
Alan Winter
These things are a part of modern life and we'll have to live with them. It's a horrendous thing.
Mark James
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
Franz Boas
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Abbie Hoffman
Modern technologies facilitate my communication with the world and help me to better manage the temple.
Shi Yongxin
It's complicated, because a lot of people from New Orleans had contempt for Houston because it's so modern and spiffy, but the jobs are here.
John Boles
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Mary Mccarthy
He is exemplary because he has such a modern and sharp spirit.
Olivier Theyskens
You can't get the bottleneck time or the bottleneck size without both modern and ancient DNA.
Yvonne Chan
This is a tremendously large crowd, the size of which is unprecedented in Lebanon's modern history, ... It is truly massive and cannot be ignored.
Brent Sadler
The modern-day equivalent of shoving money under your mattress is your checking account. Any way you can get to it with your ATM card. Easy access. And there you're guaranteed to get returns that might not even keep up with inflation.
Dayana Yochim
[Brown's] work is really wonderful, very rich and textured, very modern.
Michael Ellison
The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.
Horace Walpole
It's for someone looking for a more modern contemporary flavor. These colors balance a gray or metallic surface or substrate.
Debbie Zimmer
It's a modern form of slavery, where criminals earn the most money.
Ulrike Helwerth
There's just no way that the modern canvassing board in Pinellas County can influence an election. It's just about impossible.
John Hubbard
When (Gen.) Douglas MacArthur said, on board the Battleship Missouri, 'These proceedings are closed,' it was the end of one of the bloodiest conflicts of modern times. The celebrations of course were enormous. It marked the end of the Pacific war.
Bob Wilson
Modern life is confusing - no "Ms take" about it.
Geraldine A. Ferraro
Modern people are interested in modern media, like DVDs.
Andre Van Heerden
A lot of the beauty and the artistry of fire engines is being replaced by modern engines.
Matt Callahan
As the country's accession process progresses, it will be closer to modern standards.
Ali Babacan
It is movement integrated from ballet, modern and jazz.
Stephanie Haymore
We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.
Mike Dargani
It especially suits modern Chinese families, as families are becoming smaller nowadays.
Rudolf Zarth Geschaftsleitung
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Thorstein Veblen
This gives the foundation direction, programming and a curator for this department, and makes the Denver Art Museum a major museum in the field of modern and contemporary art.
Lewis Sharp
By no means were we trying to be perverse, but we were setting out to make a list that was a bit more modern.
Jamie Graham
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
Jackson Pollock
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
John Barrymore
Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.
Omar Sharif
It has a jazzy sound; it's a brighter, more modern fairy tale than a lot of shows we've done.
Tim Holmes
It's the length we like to show. It's a very edgy, very modern length to show. We don't like it too short because it gets vulgar, very '80s.
James Mischka
Gordon Brown is showing that he's modern, that he's not a stick-in-the mud.
William Leith
The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.
Ralph B. Perry
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin
I would classify it that way. Modern technology is challenging us tremendously.
Ralph Thompson
I'd just call it modern music done in a retro way, that's all.
James Hunter
Interpretative dances and songs, ranging from rap to jazz to modern, make up the full-length musical, which lasts for an hour and 30 minutes.
Sheila Gamo
There is a lot of interest in getting something new and modern. It's going to be a whole community thing.
Steve Matgen
What we now call modern photography was influenced by commercial photography. But not all (modern artists) were commercial photographers, and not many (commercial photographers) are recognized as fine artists.
Lee Brumbaugh
The good thing about it is that what's coming in is new and modern.
Rob Cochran
We were very committed to making sure that the new park would have more acreage, which it does, would have much more modern facilities and would be better than what's there now.
Randy Levine
I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with ... collars, neck collars.
Ralph Lauren
A modern take on traditional country homesteads in the area.
John Blair
Our inner growth should now be able to expand beyond the superiority complex of our own civilization, now that we know that the ancient Maya had attained a level of cosmic understanding that modern science has not grasped.
John Jenkins
They see themselves as modern-day explorers. They love the idea of going to exotic locations.
Neal Rubin
I'd love to see the city market its car culture, our automotive heritage. We invented the modern industrial world. We're still Motor City.
Jerry Herron
Fashion is about change and, for me, the philosophy is always the same ... that the clothes have to be really modern and make women look really beautiful, ... But, it's fun to keep changing and to change the silhouettes, to change the fabrics and to change the color. Color this fall is really going to change too, because there is color.
Calvin Klein
Sex and religion are still the great taboos in modern art.
Gilbert Proesch
Kent and Vicki Logan have ensured a strong future for modern and contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum.
Lewis Sharp
People have been to the modern facilities. The expectation set is higher. And new technologies exist that weren't available when we built our facility.
Bryan Wiedmeier
When it comes to understanding how those practices are compromised by the modern environment of 24-hour cable and Internet, I think most editors are just beginning to tap into this conversation.
Kelly Mcbride
Ties back to an earlier sound of country, but with a modern twist.
Ryan Shupe
I suppose I agree that we have had an influence on modern popular music.
Dave Gilmour
Although modern humans must now rely on dogs to sniff out drugs and other contraband at airports, our early ancestors may have been capable of the job themselves!
Yoav Gilad
I feel for those people evacuated in Cincinnati, ... They say it doesn't cause any long-term illnesses, but who knows. There are a lot of modern diseases doctors can't explain.
Dorothy Brown
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.
Nicholas Eberstadt
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Edith Sitwell
We develop these models to run on normal desktop or laptop computers. We use modern gaming techniques to put in 3-D visualization.
Kevin Mabie
I'm excited that so many people want us to do better than we've done before, ... This stadium is going to be very light and modern and different.
Joseph Spear
It has to be done by hand. This goes back more to high school physics than it does to modern rigging.
Rob Howard
This was nowhere. But it became the birthplace of modern football.
Tom Benjey
The collaboration with UBS enables Tate Modern to focus on its collection in new and different ways and reach out to new audiences through additional programming and interpretation initiatives.
Sir Nicholas Serota
If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think -- what are the foremost tools of power? You will find that it is information.
Ricardo Semler
He opened the door to the world of modern football and I considered it a privilege to play for him.
Geoff Hurst
I must say that I believe these clothes are very modern and graphic. I've worked very hard to give the fabrics luxurious finishes.
Laura Lusuardi
I have nothing to do with sci-fi. I've done a couple of sci-fi movies. I never approach them as that genre. You know, they're all dramas. Sci-fi, the idiom of sci-fi has created a context into which you can pour all sorts of great human dilemmas. So that's what I'm directing. I'm directing a modern-day humanist drama with comic elements.
Peter Weller
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style.
Henri Rousseau
It was like discovering the Sistine chapel if you didn't know there had been a Renaissance - like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on the finger of God touching the hand of Adam.
William Saturno
(We're) successfully transplanting the loft lifestyle from the downtown core to places throughout the city. We've made it even more modern with our choice of the most contemporary and innovative features and finishes.
David Feldman
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
I think being interested in food security is modern and necessary.
Thierry Breton
In this modern day of branding, you might spend thousands for a designer to develop a logo. We spent $200. In fact, I still have the invoice.
Mike Parsons
Even non-HDTV viewers will get a better image. And our new set is beautiful -- very modern yet mindful of where we live and who we are.
Tom Lindner
If it wasn't for R-CALF, folks, we would have been taking not just cattle but beef from a country that had BSE. We would have been taking food that every other modern consuming country had banned and we wouldn't even be labeling it.
Leo Mcdonnell
By putting a girl in there you immediately get a much more modern sensibility so you avoid making it a Victorian melodrama.
Stephen Frears
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
Amy Vanderbilt
I am really, really against closing and doing away with that Greensboro jail, ... It's not a modern jail, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with that jail except that it's overcrowded.
Paul Gibson
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.
Rudolf Bing
It was the first modern British sit-com.
Keith Mason
Juan was a modern-day Ellis Island immigrant. He left his native country of Argentina to make a new life for himself and his family as a pilot in the United States.
Ron Gatewood
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
Frank A. Clark
And not only that, but the new plant we would build there is much more modern.
Debra Galloway
There certainly has been a resurgence in mining, a resurgence almost unprecedented in modern times.
Luke Popovich
The chief problem with modern life is not work in itself.
Jeffrey Steingarten
The Jeep Commander is a fresh expression of the essence of Jeep design. It is the modern, quintessential Jeep.
Trevor Creed
We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV. That seemed a little bit, you know, post-modern.
Alexandra Jacobs
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235.
Joseph Farrell
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