It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young
FearBusinessManDoingKnowModern
Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.
James Theodore Bent
HealingBelieveWarmStreamModern
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Nastassja Kinski
DanceModernUsedYoungerBallet
As a modern employer you have to treat people well.
James Dyson
PeopleTreatYouEmployerModern
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
DanceLostKindChoreographyModern
I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal with efficiency, the function, the structure.
Ma Yansong
ThinkEfficiencyStructureModern
I'm a great believer in eccentrically-shaped modern families. Because I've seen them work so well. And as long as everyone loves each other, it can work very well.
Hugh Grant
WorkGreatLongEveryoneModern
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also.
Michael Leunig
WorldYouDownTragedyGoModern
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
Jackson Pollock
ArtThinkWillWearModernOff
I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world.
Hilton Als
MeWorldThinkFeelingModernUsed
The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
WorkLawLaw EnforcementFreeModern
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
ThinkGardenLittleModernSense
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
CompromiseBetterBreadMeanModern
In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.
Jason Clarke
WorldMysteryHardModernKeepWell
I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.
Garth Nix
LifeMoviesOldSecretModernCourt
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
George R. R. Martin
SuccessFantasyModernBooksHad
Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.
Jonas Gahr Store
WeakModernLiberalDemocraticBeing
I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
Carla Gugino
DayI AmEarlyMoreAlwaysModern
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
Franz Boas
CivilizationModernDistrustDisease
I'm not a great fan of the modern style of personal agonising, which crops up a bit too often for my liking.
Denis Norden
GreatStylePersonalUpModernFan
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
Dan Stevens
FunnyModernSomethingWouldLike
I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college.
Emma Healey
ArtCollegeI CanSummerModern
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
Christopher Lasch
MirrorArtNewImageModernJust
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
Banksy
ArtImportantWayMoreSameModern
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