Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
“Modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior. — Herbert Stein Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Even in the most structured, technological lives, our primal instincts are waiting to be reawakened.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“In order to be successful, Teenagers need to be practical as challenges they are faceing in modern life are numerous and complex.” — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means. — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“Remember the 'meet-cute'? The charming encounter at the bookstore, the chance meeting at a coffee shop, the accidental bump-in at the dog… — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1996, I was working for Nickelodeon on a show called 'Rocko's Modern Life,' and I was interested at… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
“Just as islands—isolated places with unique, rich biodiversity—have relevance for the ecosystems everywhere, so does studying seemingly isolated or overlooked people and… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“More to the point: the growing universe of the Nones—the new nonreligious—is one of the most spiritually vibrant and provocative spaces in… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sex is no longer a beautiful thing", she said. "It has become an entirely separate entity from what was quaintly known as… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“We are experiencing changes across the full spectrum of our experience: to our bodies, our diet, our sleep, and so much more.… — Heather E. Heying Copy Share Image
Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about… — Jane Stanton Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
“Can we create critical mass of people who not only agree with one other but can also disagree with one another? I… — Suhaib Webb Copy Share Image
“This is that CONSOLATION DES ARTS which is the key-note of Gautier’s poetry, the secret of modern life foreshadowed - as indeed… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I learned that the world of men as it exists today is a bureaucracy. This is an obvious truth, of course, though… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“[ On Love After Love by Derek Walcott ] I read this poem often, once a month at least. In the madness… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
“The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature.… — Sebastian Marincolo Copy Share Image
“Tibet has not yet been infested by the worst disease of modern life, the everlasting rush. No one overworks here. Officials have… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men. — Jessica Savitch Copy Share Image
“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.” — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
“The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life.” — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity. — Rocko Copy Share Image
“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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