Best Modern Life Sayings

102 Modern Life quotes by 87 unique authors

Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot… — Guido von List
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally… — John Dewey
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. — Charles Dudley Warner
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not… — Alfred North Whitehead
I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there… — Jamie Oliver
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that… — Zygmunt Bauman
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in… — Derek Jacobi
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is,… — Ralph Adams Cram
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. — Oscar Wilde
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those… — William Carlos Williams
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. — Robert Motherwell
I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention. — Richard Davidson
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away… — Thomas Merton
The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through… — Gerald Stanley Lee
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life. — Bear Grylls
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to… — Francis Ford Coppola
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines,… — Caroline Kennedy
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life. — Susan Orlean
Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual… — Jerry Saltz
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings… — Jerry Saltz
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men. — Jessica Savitch
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face… — Georg Simmel
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence… — Andrew Weil
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde

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