Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Jackson Pollock

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Wallace Stevens

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

Brian Greene

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its ...

David Suzuki

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

Youssou N'Dour

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.

Robert Gottlieb

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Martin H. Fischer

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.

Nina Garcia

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Neville Marriner

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

Ronnie Wood

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

Ike Skelton

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

Akihito

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

Val Kilmer

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

Will Carling

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

Conor Oberst

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

Reese Witherspoon

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.

Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone

Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

Fear: A Novel of World War I