Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan 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
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 modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde 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
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
“What a sad existence that must be—so focused on the next thing you’re doing, the next place you’re going, that you forget… — Mikki Brammer Copy Share Image
A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
“Modern life has domesticated us. We wake to alarms, live by schedules, and often feel disconnected from the natural rhythms that sustained… — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
“This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world. He is the Wise who knows not.… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life. — danah boyd Copy Share Image
To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
“) In nature, a dog's life is very simple. Because dog's realities are formed primarily by the senses, they live moment by… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Modern life conceals our need for diverse, wild, natural communities, but it does not alter that need.. if you want to feel… — Georgia Pellegrini Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks 'Modern Times' has got a big message is just putting it there himself. Charlie knew that the pressures of… — Stan Laurel Copy Share Image
“The system of consumerism may seem like an immovable fact of modern life. But it is not. That the system was manufactured… — Rachel Botsman Copy Share Image
“May be it's hard to tell from us what people were like in the old days, but no one looks behind himself… — Valentin Rasputin 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
“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
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
“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
“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 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
“sometimes I hear screaming like a child and wake up to find it’s me” — Stephen Fitzsimons 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
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
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
“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