We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where touch is both desperately needed and heavily stigmatized.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen… — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
“We live in the most ‘connected’ time ever… yet loneliness is everywhere.” — Roche Uccello Copy Share Image
You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be… — Mike Connolly Copy Share Image
In modern life, we tend to forget family values because of the hectic schedule. — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it. — Jacob Braude Copy Share Image
“You have still to learn,’ said Jasper, ‘that modesty helps a man in no department of modern life. People take you at… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button. — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
“(Montana may never be considered the epicenter of modern life, but about 65 to 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous… — Patricia Schultz Copy Share Image
“Human beings weren't designed to handle the amount of stress our modern life loads on us, which makes it difficult to hear… — Laura Markham 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
“There is, in the circumstances of modern life, only one solution to the problem of resentment, and that is social mobility. The… — Roger Scruton 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
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
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal,… — Jerry Saltz 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
“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
Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of… — Edmund Bourne Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we don't need to eat or drink as much as we do, but it has become a kind of addiction. We… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.” — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use. — Jacob Braude Copy Share Image
Modern life undermines any attempt at building communities and making connections with people without commerce. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
“Tea reminds us to slow down and escape the pressures of modern life,” he says” — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.” — Simon du Plock Copy Share Image
