As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. Boris Pasternak Russian Novelist More Boris Pasternak Quotes 1
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway American Novelist More Ernest Hemingway Quotes 1
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. Ivan Illich American Sociologist More Ivan Illich Quotes 1
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. Edward Abbey American Author More Edward Abbey Quotes 1
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. Oscar Wilde Irish Dramatist More Oscar Wilde Quotes 1
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. C. Wright Mills More C. Wright Mills Quotes 1
The modern grocer needs to stop blaming Wal-Mart and focus on improving the shopping experience. Candace Corlett More Candace Corlett Quotes 1
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin. Fritjof Capra Austrian Physicist More Fritjof Capra Quotes 1
It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. P. J. O'Rourke American Journalist More P. J. O'Rourke Quotes 1
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. Lytton Strachey English Critic More Lytton Strachey Quotes 1
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. Wallace Stevens American Poet More Wallace Stevens Quotes 1
Time is running out for most antique paper, ... Modern technology is a part of God's plan to help not only with remembering the past but creating future possibilities that at this time we cannot imagine. Ann Brown More Ann Brown Quotes 1
Modern French painting is all right; it has produced many beautiful and interesting things, fully worthy of admiration, but it has also set up response habits among our artistic authorities which have worked against a free approach to other artistic forms. Thomas Hart Benton More Thomas Hart Benton Quotes 1
Modern oppression is hidden in a form of cognitive-encryption that is imperceivable in the lower IQ ranges. Bryant H. McGill American Author More Bryant H. McGill Quotes 1
There is nothing more savage than modern civilization. Bryant H. McGill American Author More Bryant H. McGill Quotes 0
Modern consumer life is like a mass dissociative disorder which prevents people from experiencing essential truth, real-life community, universal rites of passage and even an acceptable and reasonable death. Bryant H. McGill American Author More Bryant H. McGill Quotes 0
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. Richard Adams English Clergyman More Richard Adams Quotes 0
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize. Kate Adie British Journalist More Kate Adie Quotes 0
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. Alfred Adler Austrian Psychologist More Alfred Adler Quotes 0
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms. Thomas More English Humanist More Thomas More Quotes 0
What is a modern poet's fate?/ To write his thoughts upon a slate;/ The critic spits on what is done,/ Gives it a wipe" - and all is gone. Thomas Hood English Poet More Thomas Hood Quotes 0
The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian. Thomas Wolfe American More Thomas Wolfe Quotes 0
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. Thomas Wolfe American More Thomas Wolfe Quotes 0
I tried to write a more modern, edgier version of the big blockbuster novels I enjoyed reading as a teenager, and a lot of those were family epics with broad, sweeping themes. Tilly Bagshawe More Tilly Bagshawe Quotes 0
Being a firefighter is as close as you can get to being a modern-day soldier in your home country. Tom Dawson More Tom Dawson Quotes 0