I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“Places don't matter to people any more. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life… — Drake Bell Copy Share Image
We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
“The economic metaphor came to be applied to every aspect of modern life, especially the areas where it simply didn't belong. In… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
The Amazon lot are perfectly reasonable, level-headed people who just want to make TV programmes. I don't think they are the enemy… — James May Copy Share Image
The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“fact is that moderate Islamism is a myth. There are, to be sure, more than a billion moderate Muslims—people who pray five… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life. — danah boyd Copy Share Image
“Modern life has domesticated us. We wake to alarms, live by schedules, and often feel disconnected from the natural rhythms that sustained… — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
“This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world. He is the Wise who knows not.… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply it's bareness, it's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Modern life. Where are we running? Sometimes what we want is not always where we are... Are we alone? Is the real… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Norman Mailer's 'Of a Fire on the Moon', a description of the 1969 moon landing and the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The thing that amazes me about modern life is you have all these devices that are supposed to make your lives more… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“This concept struck a familiar chord with many individuals who indeed were having a difficult time coping with the rapid change that… — James Canton Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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