Modern life Quotes

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Classless society is the dream of people with no class.

— Robert Zend

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

— John Lyly

When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.

— Guy Lombardo

“A city has no sense, no sentiment, no soul.”

— Amit Kalantri

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

“You used to pray for rain. Now you pray for signal.”

— Marius Johan Stokknes

“A diet of solely mental work is suffocating.”

— Tom Hodgkinson

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

— Richard Davidson

“you can't reconcile religion with modern life, with all the knowledge we have, with science…”

— Raymond Khoury

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

— Ben Aaronovitch

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

— Richard Bach

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

— Francis Bacon

“Health can be disrupted so easily by the habits of modern life.”

— Kulreet Chaudhary

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.

— Laurie Colwin

“With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously…

— Steven Magee

“You have still to learn,’ said Jasper, ‘that modesty helps a man in no department of modern life. People take you at…

— George Gissing

“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The typical wage earner spends the major part of every working day performing tasks under the scrutiny of an employer. Often, these…

— Richard L. Currier

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we…

— Robert Orben

“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus,…

— Tabish Khair

They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why…

— Robert Orben

...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

— Stefan Kanfer

It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as…

— Jack Kornfield

“The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. Even when they…

— C.Wright Mills

Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal,…

— Jerry Saltz

Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in…

— Andrew Weil

“Those were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not…

— George Santayana

I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look…

— James Gleick

“After one postmodern doorstopper, you’ve read them all. Pynchon got there first, really… and it was good… but most of the others…

— A.D. Aliwat

“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and…

— Robert M. Pirsig

But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to…

— William Carlos Williams

“The basic move of liberalism is to replace the social centre (normal people) with the margin (foreigners, minorities, deviants) forever. The stack…

— Mike Maxwell

“Even today as an adult I can go back to that center via the marvelous capacity of memory and there experience thanksgiving…

— Richard J. Foster

“Nowadays it often takes two parents working full-time to secure the same standard of living one wage earner could provide thirty or…

— Gabor Maté

“Laila could picture the flow of traffic all around her. From above, she watched the cars move along in streams like all…

— Cliff Jones Jr

“What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What pleasure can there be in an…

— Théophile Gautier

“The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left…

— Christopher Henry Dawson