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We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones." "But the new ones are so stupid and horrible.
— Aldous Huxley
We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful.
— Aldous Huxley
I've always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.
— Donald Trump
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
— Oscar Wilde
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
— Oscar Wilde
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
— Jimmy Carter
Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.
— Mother Angelica
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
— Jimmy Carter
The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be ; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve .
— Soren Kierkegaard
The discrepancies between Puritan and modern evangelism should prompt us to revert back to the older message where the whole of Scripture is addressed to the whole man.
— Joel Beeke
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.
— Charles Spurgeon