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
“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
“We scroll for meaning, but meaning grows slowly—like roots, not feeds.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“You know something is wrong when chapter tests determine your twenties. The fate of a young life in modern America is dependent… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.” — Nic Marks Copy Share Image
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“You have still to learn,’ said Jasper, ‘that modesty helps a man in no department of modern life. People take you at… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“The typical wage earner spends the major part of every working day performing tasks under the scrutiny of an employer. Often, these… — Richard L. Currier Copy Share Image
“Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be? And the signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking,… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
“Whatever it’s called, its pitch relies on glamour shots of earnest young men with dishevelled, flowing hair living in rural settings unsullied… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime.… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
“Tibet has not yet been infested by the worst disease of modern life, the everlasting rush. No one overworks here. Officials have… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature.… — Sebastian Marincolo 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
“Can we create critical mass of people who not only agree with one other but can also disagree with one another? I… — Suhaib Webb Copy Share Image
“This is that CONSOLATION DES ARTS which is the key-note of Gautier’s poetry, the secret of modern life foreshadowed - as indeed… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When the time comes, & I hope it comes soon, to bury this era of moral rot & the defiling of our… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“I learned that the world of men as it exists today is a bureaucracy. This is an obvious truth, of course, though… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“From here on out, Reena's life was going to be hard. She would have to work hard to get the job, and… — Caro Claire Burke Copy Share Image
Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people. — George Ade Copy Share Image
The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them. — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching? — Samuel Hoffenstein Copy Share Image
“My assumption with anyone in their thirties or above is they have health issues and are on prescription medication.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life.” — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men. — Jessica Savitch Copy Share Image
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