Quotes of: Modern-man Keyword

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

Robert Fripp

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

Amy Vanderbilt

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

Brendan Coyle

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Wynton Marsalis

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

A Young Man After God's Own Heart

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Louis Farrakhan

No woman can make a wise man out of a fool, but every woman can change a wise man into a fool.

Argentine

A good dog does not bite a chicken and a good man does not hit his wife.

Chinese

When a rich man falls they say it was an accident; when a poor man falls they say that he was drunk.

Turkish

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Tim Robbins

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

W. C. Fields

The usual consolations of life, friendship and sex included, appealed to Newton hardly at all. Art, literature, and music had scarcely more allure. He dismissed the classical sculptures in the Earl of Pembroke's renowned collection as "stone dolls." ...

The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

As events would show, Cixi was indeed opposed to the foreign policy of her husband and his inner circle – but for very different reasons. Silently observing from close quarters, she in fact regarded their stubborn resistance to opening the door of ...

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern society in our day, the church avoided scandal by going along with it - fundamentally evil as patriarchy was and is. Now,...

Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender

Purpose is not that far my child--- it's just a journey's walk. It is the One at the end of the journey, it is the end of the journey, and it is the journey itself. And when you thirst, do you not drink? And when you are cool, do you not warm yoursel...

Growth In Expression: Modern Christian Poems

Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; i...

The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the deepest fears) and inflict stigma is always worth challenging, and it does seem to have more limited credibility in the modern world, among people...

Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

The decline of sustained close reading of Eliot is also related, ironically, to the emergence of historical scholarship regarding sources and allusions. The major figure here is Grover Smith, who in the midfifties published an encyclopedic study of E...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

The mechanical clock was self-contained, and once horologists learned to drive it by means of a coiled spring rather than a falling weight, it could be miniaturized so as to be portable, whether in the household or on the person. It was this possibil...

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World