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
The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where touch is both desperately needed and heavily stigmatized.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“We’ve built a ‘human zoo,’ caging ourselves in routines, technology, and artificial environments.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
“Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Wu Wei, doing nothing, and Wu Bu Wei, doing everything, are our answers to the challenges of modern life.” — Qiguang Zhao 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
“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
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
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
“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
We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because… — John Baird 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
“Users scroll through their feeds and look for something that isn’t there— what a perfect hamster wheel: unlimited content for a lonely… — Karl Kristian Flores 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
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Song " I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life mud clambers up… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“...apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953...The wonders portrayed… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 phrase “slow reading” goes back at least as far as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who in 1887 described himself as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I can't explain. When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In his book "Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift", Paul Rahe writes, "Human dignity is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one's own… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“The economy — and the need to keep it strong and growing — has somehow become the most important aspect of modern… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“They Harry Potters still enormously outnumber the likes of Petunia and Vernon Dursley in society, who just don't hold with such nonsense,… — Roger Highfield Copy Share Image
“The problem is going to be, "Let's see, I spent all day staring at a computer screen and then at night my… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink and wear as good as they used to be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year. — Abe Lemons Copy Share Image
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Modern life can create great confusion and we can forget that humanity is an integral component in the natural world.” — Ray Mears Copy Share Image
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
