Best Modern Life Quotes
102 Modern Life quotes by 87 unique authors
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The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.
— James Crumley
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The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more…
— Robert Warshow
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In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled…
— Laurance Rockefeller
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The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is…
— Paul MacCready
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Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.
— danah boyd
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The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to…
— Bertrand Russell
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Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the…
— Pope John Paul II
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Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions…
— Edmund Bourne
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Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern…
— Doris "Granny D" Haddock
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It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were…
— Jack Kornfield
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Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives, how we depend…
— Dalai Lama
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Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a…
— Isabelle Eberhardt
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Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly…
— Brit Marling
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The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
— Edward Ruscha
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The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every…
— Alan Cooper
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The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative,…
— Russell Kirk
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Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
— Neel Burton
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The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural…
— Kenny Smith
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