Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

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

Julius Genachowski

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.

Laurie Colwin

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Frank Whittle

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

Michael Morpurgo

This is a trust that you just cannot find in modern society for there are no conditions to forge it.

Chris Matakas

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

Bill Toomey

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

Herman Daly

In modern society the term "no" have changed meaning. It now seems to be an abbreviation for "Negotiations Open".

Jury Nel

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.

Raymond Loewy

Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

Ai Weiwei

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

Susan Davis

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

Arsene Wenger

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

A Civil Campaign

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

A Civil Campaign

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

A Civil Campaign

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

A Civil Campaign

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Henry Louis Gates

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital.

Cary Fukunaga

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

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