“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.” — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity. — Rocko Copy Share Image
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!” — Vikram Roy Copy Share Image
“We may be in the modern digital age, but when it comes to stories, we are still antediluvian.” — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
“(Montana may never be considered the epicenter of modern life, but about 65 to 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous… — Patricia Schultz Copy Share Image
...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button. — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus,… — Tabish Khair Copy Share Image
They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that… — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life,… — Margaret Meagher 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
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Those were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. Even when they… — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“fact is that moderate Islamism is a myth. There are, to be sure, more than a billion moderate Muslims—people who pray five… — John R. Bradley 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.… — Nick Marks The Happiness Manifesto Copy Share Image
“…I’ve seen the world tell us with wars and real estate developments and bad politics and odd court decisions that our lives… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“It started up from the skies. Hello…wait, don't run away. I won't touch you…don't run away. I just want to talk to… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“It’s perfectly obvious from our society today what those specifications were. Maturity has by now been banished from nearly every aspect of… — john taylor gatto Copy Share Image
“Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.' 'You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.' 'Before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Even in the most structured, technological lives, our primal instincts are waiting to be reawakened.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior. — Herbert Stein Copy Share Image
“Modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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![“Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.” quote by Margaret Meagher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d80/margaret-meagher-259550_activity_coffee-has-expand-ed-humanity-s-working_1139089.jpg)
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