Thoroughly Modern Quotes

#1. To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here's a new writer who has found his voice. Listen to him and enjoy!

James Patrick Kelly

#3. To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

Mason Cooley

#4. The God who makes the promise keeps the promise.

James Carroll

#5. It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

Rosanne Cash

#6. The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons is not because of all the interesting things we have learned over the past few centuries, but because of all the vital things we have forgotten.

David Bentley Hart

#7. He winked at me and my heart stuttered.

Aileen Erin

#8. Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

Thomas Mellon

#9. When the beaded curtain parts with a sound like rain, it is Marco who enters the fortune-teller's chamber, and Isobel immediately flips her veil from her face, the impossibly thin black silk floating back over her head like mist.

Erin Morgenstern

#10. Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti

Swami Vivekananda

#11. He was on me before my brain processed the fact that he was coming for me.

Karen Marie Moning

#12. Chaos at the bottom means order at the top. Order at the bottom means chaos at the top.

Stephen K. Hayes

#13. In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Jacques Ellul

#14. Surely it is no accident that the most thorough of tyrannies appeared in Europe's most thoroughly scientific and industrialized nation. If we allow our own country to become as densely populated, overdeveloped and technically unified as modern Germany we may face a similar fate.

Edward Abbey

#15. Youth without faith is a day without sun.

Ouida

#16. I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough - I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929.

Miranda July

#17. A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

Henry H. Arnold

#18. When you love somebody, you don't just give up on them when they do bad things. You fight for them.

Kelly Braffet