“We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist. — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Dating today can feel like a maze, full of twists, turns, and unexpected dead ends.” — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a… — Joshua Krook Copy Share Image
“The Illusion of Abundance: The sheer number of profiles can create the illusion that there's always someone 'better' just a swipe away.” — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves. — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“We live in an era where everyone is terrified of being caught trying. So, the defense mechanism is to pretend you never… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
I was scared of the Bible - it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
“Vagrancy is deliverance, and a life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the… — Gunnar Kopperud Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is not certain that the standardized habits of modern life lead to the optimum development of human beings. The present ways… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To face the days ahead we must ask two questions: first, "Where are we?" and second, "Where do we go from here?"… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Books allow us to escape from the pressures of modern life. By far, the best vehicles of escape are Young Adult Science… — Peter Graham Copy Share Image
“The Daily Grind by Stewart Stafford Crooked broker flashes teeth, Cannibal flesh on their napkin, The traffic jam zombie shuffle, Stars, take… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“A sign of the times. But the times has so many signs that if we read them all we'd die of heartbreak.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life” — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
In the United States, we've put our elections on Tuesday. That's dumb. In modern life, it makes absolutely no sense. — Shaun King Copy Share Image
The Internet is vital to economic development, health, education, and to be honest, all areas of our modern life. — Kay Ivey Copy Share Image
“To my mind, modern life just offers too many numbers that we're supposed to keep track of.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them. — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
