“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp. — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it… — Wilson Mizner 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
The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
“Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or… — Barack Obama 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
“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
“p11- when people cherish some set of values and do not feel any threat to them they experience well being 12- we… — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“Cars have become an essential ingredient of modern life, as shoes used to be.” — Debasish Mridha 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
Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they… — Richard Wilbur 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
“The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Imagine a world without touch… Relationships grow colder, trust erodes, and loneliness becomes the norm.” — Ken Breniman 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
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
“The one that’s different often has the odds stacked against them but usually ends up with the biggest rewards so it’s always… — Torron-Lee Dewar Copy Share Image
