Modern Quotes

You need to look at these plans with a fine-toothed comb to see if they carry your medications. When the Medicare Modernization Act was passed, there was a lot of discussion that private health insurance companies wouldn't get into the act because it would be too hard to make a profit. But the proof will be in the pudding. If they aren't making a profit, they'll get out of this. - Dr. Ronald T. Rozett

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. - John Ruskin

You might say it's more of a reinvent-the-wheel sort of thing using modern technology. - Mike Grant

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide. - Newt Gingrich

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection. - Morris West

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.' - Giovanni Ribisi

You have to take a look at the 1918 experience and realize if 50 to 100 million people died and those numbers come from a recent study from a group of historians that went country by country to determine that number... Today we that have three times the number in the world those numbers are roughly at 180 to 360 million could die. The bottom line is the way these people die. Our medical care delivery system in the modern world isn't any better prepared than in 1918. - Michael Osterholm

You have to chuckle when you see what Morrison does. Offensively, you can make the case that there may have been no one in the modern era who has been more efficient as a perimeter player. - Sean Miller

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. - Theodore Bikel