We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.
However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.
The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.
As a woman, for example, I live and work very much like a man. I take a lot of things from the man's world and I have to do that if I want to survive modern life. Conversely, men have to take things from the woman's world to survive. It's a very beautiful thing that you have to mold your own gender nowadays. But it's a very stressful thing for us.
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
I knew that [directorscreenwriter] Catalina Aguilar Mastretta had an amazing take on the female psyche and the modern woman and the modern immigrant woman living in the U. S. , and I really saw the need for a story told of our daily lives without being a statistic and without just trying to hit a demographic, and I felt that with this one.
You lose only the things you have
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.