Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

George Osborne

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

Harriet Harman

No fundamentalist undercurrent ran through the national culture before the first war. Sufism had always been the predominant Muslim sect, and Wahhabism was a foreign, wartime import. A few times a year, Arab Wahhabis came through the village in searc...

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Perhaps vaguely aware that his movie so completely lacks gravitas, Moore concludes with a sonorous reading of some words from George Orwell. The words are taken from and consist of a third-person analysis of a hypothetical, endless and contrived war ...

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!" In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon Johnson mentioned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk...

Lyndon B. Johnson

Archy Hamilton: You of all people should be going. Frank Dunne: Why me of all people? Archy Hamilton: 'Cause you're an athlete. Frank Dunne: [laughs] What's that got to do with it? Archy Hamilton: I've got mates who'd be lucky to do the hundred in tw...

Gallipoli

He who has a good looking wife, a castle on the river, or a vineyard on the roadside is never without war.

Spanish

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

Culpa Innata

It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.

Breathing for Two

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

Pete Waterman

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

Robin Marantz Henig

Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.

Tom Stoppard

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Tom Stoppard

It’s just another notch in the good ol’ fucked up, modern America belt.

Taint

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

Orson Pratt

Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.

Richard Armitage

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

Terry Eagleton

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

Thor Heyerdahl

'Dead Witch Walking' is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

Kim Harrison

I'm a modern girl, but you should put your husband first. I like to think divorce is not an option.

Khloe Kardashian