Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

Historians In The Middle Ages

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

The Realm of the Nebulae

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Winston Churchill

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Karl Jaspers

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Diane Paulus

In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of governance, while speaking at the symposium he wond...

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.

Consumed

The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.

Nancy Gibbs

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Octavio Paz

It's your life, not your death, that defines you.

Vector a Modern Love Story

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

Timothy Garton Ash

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

Larry Wall

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.

David Miliband

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

Eva Zeisel

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

Chris Martin

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

Robert Casey

I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.

Roy Harper

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

Guillermo del Toro

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

Marilyn vos Savant

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Andrew Dominik

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

W.S. Merwin