#modern

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#american history #barack #barack obama #friends #greatest

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. ↗

— Elizabeth Wilson

#conflict #difference #fragments #inequality #never

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#conservative #engaged #exercises #justification #man

I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want. ↗

— Theresa May

#ensure #flexible #i #i believe #i think

With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#compose #go #help #i #i can

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#car #changes #dial #driving #even

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#comforts #days #difficult #edge #hard

Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier. ↗

— Daymond John

#business #buzz #ceo #country #day

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#book #funny #funny way #intense #less