We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Imagine a world without touch… Relationships grow colder, trust erodes, and loneliness becomes the norm.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
Few events in modern life are more viewed or more talked about than the Super Bowl halftime show. — Cynthia Germanotta 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
“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
The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life. — Lewis Gordon Copy Share Image
“One of her most reached-for truisms was that some percentage of jobs were indistinguishable from one another, as they all involved the… — Rumaan Alam 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
“As pervasive as medicine has become in modern life, it remains mostly hidden and often misunderstood. We have taken it to be… — Gawande Atul 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
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
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
“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
“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
“The world is not with us enough O taste and see the subway Bible poster said, meaning The Lord, meaning if anything… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“As Rockwell Kent said in his Alaskan journal, 'The wonder of wilderness was its tranquility.' I wish I had said that first.… — Jack Turner Copy Share Image
“I daydreamed about BEING Anne. Traipsing through nineteenth-century meadows, reciting Romantic poetry (Keats was my fave, because he died with such gruesome… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
“We do not believe in evil anymore, only evil acts that can be explained away by the science of the mind. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the tragic ironies of modern life is that so many people feel isolated from each other by the very feelings… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Heidegger connects the linchpin of the Kantian Paradigm—A5 Active Knower, that is, the idea that the subject organizes experience—to what he considers… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Let’s take a look at how modern life goes. Mostly, it’s frenetic and at a pace that’s not conducive to reflective thought./… — Sarah Wilson Copy Share Image
“Oh, those lapses, darling. So many of us walk around letting fly with “errors.” We could do better, but we’re so slovenly,… — John H. McWhorter 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
It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription. — Malcolm Potts 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
“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
“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
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes. — V. S. Naipaul 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