“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
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
“you can't reconcile religion with modern life, with all the knowledge we have, with science…” — Raymond Khoury Copy Share Image
It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind. — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention. — Richard Davidson 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
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
“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
“In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a… — Joshua Krook 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
“While researchers strive to expand the frontiers of human faculties, the products of their endeavors tend to dull the creative urge of… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“The tendency for depression to repeat reflects the normal default settings of a plastic mood system that is open to experience. The… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“Just as islands—isolated places with unique, rich biodiversity—have relevance for the ecosystems everywhere, so does studying seemingly isolated or overlooked people and… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines… — Alan Cooper 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
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
“...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
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
“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
“Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“The basic move of liberalism is to replace the social centre (normal people) with the margin (foreigners, minorities, deviants) forever. The stack… — Mike Maxwell Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Even today as an adult I can go back to that center via the marvelous capacity of memory and there experience thanksgiving… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Nowadays it often takes two parents working full-time to secure the same standard of living one wage earner could provide thirty or… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What pleasure can there be in an… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake. — Robert J. White Copy Share Image
There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
I was born in 1989. I literally watched 'Rocko's Modern Life' on live television. — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
“Health can be disrupted so easily by the habits of modern life.” — Kulreet Chaudhary Copy Share Image
Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production. — Aubrey McClendon Copy Share Image
The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image