Modern Life Quotes
102 quotes by 89 authors
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth…
— Johnny Ball
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
— John Buchan
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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…
— Margaret Meagher
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not…
— Agnes Repplier
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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
— Bruce Barton
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As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs…
— Richard J. Foster
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Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise…
— Thomas Merton
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in…
— Barack Obama
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We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and…
— Andrei Sakharov
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
— Oscar Wilde
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Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class…
— Jacques Ellul
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The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more than in other…
— Pope John Paul II
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Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
— Oscar Wilde
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Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in…
— Richard Dawkins
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One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas.…
— Russell Brand
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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
— Le Corbusier
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I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used…
— Adam Duritz
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In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document,…
— Paul Robeson
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