Famous Quotes - Tags - Modern Times

  • A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the... More
  • All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy,... More
  • Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness. More
  • But at my back from time to time I hear
    The sound of horns and motors, which shall... More
  • but what can be done gull gull when you turn the sun
    on again, a dead fruit
    and all that... More
  • Certainly for us of the modern world, with its conflicting claims, its entangled interests,... More
  • Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of... More
  • For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to wax old. More
  • For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic... More
  • For we which now behold these present days
    Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. More
  • Formerly they had a heaven adorned with a vast wealth of thoughts and imagery. The meaning of all... More
  • He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world’s second... More
  • He was naturally so sensitive, and so kind. But he had the insidious modern disease of tolerance.... More
  • I am not yet born; O fill me
    With strength against those who would freeze my
    humanity,... More
  • I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an... More
  • I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such... More
  • I can’t accept “our nervous age,” since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever... More
  • I have none of the tenderer-than-thou
    Collectivistic regimenting love
    With which the... More
  • I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for... More
  • If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle—absolute... More
  • In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an... More
  • In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.... More
  • In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again,... More
  • It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from... More
  • It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of... More
  • It is obvious that rationality has been utterly lost in modern marriage: which is no objection to... More
  • It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. More
  • Knaves and fools
    have done you impious wrong,
    Venus, for venery stands for... More
  • Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is... More
  • Man you ought to see his plans for allsteel buildins. He’s got an idea the skyscraper of the... More
  • Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner... More
  • Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
    And danced all the modern dances;
    And her aunts were not quite... More
  • Modern marriage has lost its meaning—consequently it is being abolished. More
  • Not in our time, O Lord,
    the plowshare for the sword,
    not in our time, the... More
  • Not until the advent of Impressionism does the repudiation of principles set in which opened the... More
  • Now this amazed Martin, since in his opinion one could not even imagine a better century than the... More
  • Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want... More
  • O born in days when wits were fresh and clear,
    And life ran gaily as the sparkling... More
  • Oh the times! Oh the customs![O tempora! O mores!]. More
  • One realises, with horror, that the race of men is almost extinct in Europe. Only Christ-like... More
  • Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war. More
  • Our age is an age of moderate virtue
    And of moderate vice
    When men will not lay down the... More
  • Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to... More
  • Our “Age of Anxiety” is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with... More
  • Panoramas are not what they used to be.
    Claude has been dead a long time
    And apostrophes... More
  • Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation. More
  • screenwriter
    Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that,... More
  • Since the fin has come a little early this siecle and anomie is all the rage, wry, dry tenderness... More
  • Substantial pieces of goods [were] very offensive to her Ladyship’s sight. They, for their... More
  • The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today. More
  • The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the... More
  • The Church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do
    But stand... More
  • The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age. More
  • The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all,... More
  • The jeweled stripes on the window ran straight down when the train stopped and got more and more... More
  • The lean cats of the arches of the churches,
    That’s the old world. In the new, all men are... More
  • The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has... More
  • The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has streched itself to the point where neither... More
  • The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. More
  • The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing... More
  • The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the... More
  • The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting... More
  • The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events... More
  • The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination. More
  • The weakness of modern tragedy ... [is that] transgression against the social code is made to... More
  • There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. More
  • This movie deals with the epidemic of the way we live now.
    What an inane cardplayer. And the... More
  • This strange disease of modern life,
    With its sick hurry, its divided aims. More
  • Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the... More
  • To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs... More
  • To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more... More
  • To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions. More
  • Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center,... More
  • Today’s child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them... More
  • Type of the modern—emblem of motion and
    power—pulse of the continent, More
  • Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the... More
  • We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in... More
  • We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture. More
  • We Irish, born into that ancient sect
    But thrown upon this filthy modern tide
    And by its... More
  • We know it only too well: if we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. More
  • Were anyone nowadays to venture to say, “Whoever is not for me is against me,” he would... More
  • When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. More
  • Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors?
    Free to... More
  • You don’t have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in, That world is gone. More
  • You feel you could pucker up and blow away the miles between 49 Bard Road [Brixton] and that... More
  • You’re driving along the highway licketty-split, see. You’re in a hurry and you’re worried... More
  • “Modernity” signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which... More
  • “What are the characteristics of today’s world so that one may recognize it by them?” It... More

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