My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them. — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
“sometimes I hear screaming like a child and wake up to find it’s me” — Stephen Fitzsimons Copy Share Image
Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about… — Billie Burke Copy Share Image
“Oh, no, I am dying, Ilya says. Not sick. I am born dying. But I am not so unusual. There are many… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“On the practical level modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning. Modern” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
“One essential characteristic of modern life is that we all depend on systems—on assemblages of people or technologies or both—and among our… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound. — James Crumley Copy Share Image
I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to… — Paul Winter Copy Share Image
“Here, in the vast expanse of nothingness, one confronts the depths of their own existence, unburdened by the trappings of modern life.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
The adversarial processes in modern life create disharmony with the way the Universe creates opportunities to co-exist with the sum of its… — Big Al Connolly Copy Share Image
We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the… — Sharon Wall Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
“The tendency for depression to repeat reflects the normal default settings of a plastic mood system that is open to experience. The… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you… — Judith Martin 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 Japanese see the seasons as signposts, visible reminders of our own natural rhytms. In modern life, these often get disrupted, as… — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Who today reflects that in the Battle of the Somme alone, where every man was an eager volunteer of ‘Kitchener’s Army’, more… — Arthur Stanley Gould Lee Copy Share Image
“There are many things that men and women ought to think about, and must think about, in private, that they would not… — R.A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“But self-mastery triumphs in this Modern Life of ours. So if we haven’t found happiness or calm or balance amidst it all… — Sarah Wilson Copy Share Image
“Being in flight is one of the most unnatural, extraordinary, ordinary experiences of modern life. When we climb to 30,000 feet, our… — Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Copy Share Image
“When the time comes, & I hope it comes soon, to bury this era of moral rot & the defiling of our… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me. — Gael Greene Copy Share Image
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!” — Vikram Roy Copy Share Image
“We may be in the modern digital age, but when it comes to stories, we are still antediluvian.” — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image