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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

Quotes by Maya Lin

I'm curious about the mix of the effortless bohemian thing with the very modern.

Quotes by Matthew Williamson

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Quotes by Mary McCarthy

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

Quotes by Martin Heidegger

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

Quotes by Martin Filler

During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.

Quotes by Martin Filler

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Quotes by Marilyn vos Savant

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

Quotes by Marie-Chantal Claire

When it comes to my style, I'm a proper Italian woman of the modern age!

Quotes by Mariacarla Boscono

Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world.

Quotes by Margaret MacMillan

I've always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires.

Quotes by Marcus Sakey

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

Quotes by Marc Ribot

In modern life, we tend to forget family values because of the hectic schedule.

Quotes by Mahesh Babu

Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs.

Quotes by Lynn Nottage

Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.

Quotes by Liz Williams

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Quotes by Lion Feuchtwanger

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

Quotes by Linda Grant

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Leonardo da Vinci

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

Quotes by Leonard Maltin

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Quotes by Larry Wall

The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.

Quotes by Larry Ellison

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Quotes by Larry Ellison

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

Quotes by Lafcadio Hearn

Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s most controversial modern politician.

Quotes by Kwasi Kwarteng

Technology is a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives, and the accompanying geeky lexicon has infiltrated every facet of our modern day society.

Quotes by Kimberly Bryant

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

Quotes by Kenzaburo Oe

I much prefer the modern world.

Quotes by Keith Henson

Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.

Quotes by Keith Ellison

Modern sport can be an ugly convergence of commerce and celebrity, but it still has the capacity to move a crowd.

Quotes by Katie Kitamura

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

Quotes by Julius Genachowski

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

Quotes by Julie Harris

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

Quotes by Julie Harris

I would loathe to work on modern films.

Quotes by Julie Harris

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

Quotes by Josiah Stamp

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Joseph Conrad

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

Quotes by Jools Holland

Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

Quotes by Jonas Gahr Store

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Quotes by John Ruskin

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Quotes by John Ruskin

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

Quotes by John Patrick Shanley

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

Quotes by John Mortimer

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

Quotes by John Lothrop Motley

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

Quotes by John Leo

Modern culture is a tremendous force.

Quotes by John Gresham Machen

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

Quotes by John Gresham Machen

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

Quotes by John Caudwell

The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.

Quotes by John Bradshaw

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Quotes by John Buchanan Robinson

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Quotes by John Buchanan Robinson

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

Quotes by John Buchanan Robinson

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

Quotes by Johan Huizinga

The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s.

Quotes by Joe Gebbia

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

Quotes by Joanne Harris

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

Quotes by Jessica Lange

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

Quotes by Jerry Harrison

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.

Quotes by Jane Leavy

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Quotes by Jane Asher

We have all come to agree the modern players cannot be one-trick ponies, and we are especially critical of those who do not consistently produce in the biggest games.

Quotes by Jamie Carragher

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

Quotes by James Theodore Bent

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

Quotes by James Mercer

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained.

Quotes by James Loeb

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

Quotes by James D. Watkins

I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.

Quotes by Jaggi Vasudev

I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.

Quotes by Jacob Rees-Mogg

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

Quotes by Issey Miyake

I love 'Sherlock.' I love 'Modern Family.'

Quotes by Isaac Hempstead Wright

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

Quotes by Imre Kertesz

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

Quotes by Ibrahim Babangida

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

Quotes by I. M. Pei

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

Quotes by Hugo Gernsback

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

Quotes by Howard Nemerov

The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology.

Quotes by Hooman Majd

Companies that rely on licensing a proprietary dataset should expect to be outpaced by competitors using modern data collection techniques and more frequent updates and greater accuracy.

Quotes by Hilary Mason

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

Quotes by Herbert Read

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

Quotes by Herbert Read

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

Quotes by Herbert Read

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Quotes by Herman Daly

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Quotes by Henry Waxman

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Quotes by Henry A. Wallace

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

Quotes by Henry A. Wallace

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

Quotes by Harriet Harman

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Quotes by Hans-Georg Gadamer

In modern times, the American military has become more bureaucratised.

Quotes by H. W. Brands

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

Quotes by Guy Laliberte

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Quotes by Guy Debord

There's been a streak of vengeance and carnage in all of Dylan's records except for the Christmas record, since 2001, since 'Love and Theft.' Particularly on 'Modern Times' in 2006.

Quotes by Greil Marcus

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

Quotes by Gloria Trevi

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

Quotes by Gilbert Murray

Each Passover, I prepare all sorts of fancy desserts for my family and friends, often experimenting with adaptations of sophisticated modern fare.

Quotes by Gil Marks

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Quotes by Geraldo Rivera

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Quotes by Georges Bernanos

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

Quotes by George Blagden

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

Quotes by Geoffrey S. Fletcher

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

Quotes by Gary Becker

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Quotes by Garet Garrett

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Quotes by Franz Boas

I am fully a feminist in this modern definition of the term. It's innate in my work because that's just who I am.

Quotes by Frankie Shaw

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