“Wu Wei, doing nothing, and Wu Bu Wei, doing everything, are our answers to the challenges of modern life.” — Qiguang Zhao 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
“The Paradox of Choice: Faced with hundreds or even thousands of profiles, we can become overwhelmed and indecisive.” — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. — Brendan Behan 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
I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year. — Abe Lemons Copy Share Image
“New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply it's bareness, it's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Modern life. Where are we running? Sometimes what we want is not always where we are... Are we alone? Is the real… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds… — Harper Lee 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
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
“Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: "The production of petroleum… — Jane Brox Copy Share Image
It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick… — Robert Benchley 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
“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
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The… — Oscar Wilde 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
“In modern life, people think that their body belongs to them and they can do anything they want to it. When they… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“A piece of plastic stole an entire species— In lobbies, in the bathroom, in an elevator, Ideas, reactions, and silent contemplations, During… — Karl Kristian Flores 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
“El Greco and Van Gogh shared several passions beyond art. Both were religious and disliked the materialism of their respective ages. Neither… — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
“Preaching the word of God and doing the work of evil. That's how it's done these days.” — Jeff Ampolini Copy Share Image
“One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.” — Oscar Wilde 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
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
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The… — Oscar Wilde 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
![“Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city whose residents like to go around saying they'd never live anyplace else on account of they'd miss the opera.” quote by Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/dave-barry-222_accounts_note-that-both-of-these-papers-the-new-y_1034535.png)
![“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. [Open Letter, O Magazine , July 2006]” quote by Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3af/harper-lee-451_book_now-75-years-after-to-kill-a-mockingbird_1589251.png)
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