Modern Life Quotes
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Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.
— Attila Kotanyi
I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the deadthat's environmentally sound. — James Crumley
The greatest modern philosopher was moved by nothing more than by duty. His life, in consequence, was unremarkable.
— Roger Scruton
Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!
— Milan Kundera
I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough - I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929.
— Miranda July
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
— William Morris
If the shoe fits you're lucky.
— Malcolm Forbes
Fish and guests in three days are stale.
— John Lyly
I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.
— Terry Gilliam
In modern parlance we speak of the interconnectedness of all life, suggesting that one cannot really be healthy when the environment is sick.
— Richard A. Young
Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
— Imre Kertesz
Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of modern life.
— Lionel Shriver
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
— Oscar Wilde
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
— Charles Dudley Warner
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
— Os Guinness
Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.
— Alexander Rodchenko
Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.
— Michael Harris
Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
— Werner Heisenberg
Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.
— Aubrey McClendon
The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.
— Robin Marantz Henig
the great mass of humanity distracted by the trappings and fabricated urgency of modern life.
— Jamling Tenzing Norgay
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger, and danger hasbecome so rare in modern life. — Oscar Wilde
When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.
— Guy Lombardo
And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrafice
— Boris Pasternak
Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.
— Richard Condon
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
— Wernher Von Braun
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
— Bear Grylls
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
— Alfred North Whitehead
It's a paradox of modern times that the more we engage with social media in our virtual lives, the more antisocial we become in reality.
— The School Of Life
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
— Ernest Hemingway,
To be, in a word, unborable ... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish
— David Foster Wallace
If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.
— Jerry Adler
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.
— Malcolm Forbes
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
— Le Corbusier
You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.
— Mike Connolly
In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Modern formulaic society will try to make you "normal," rushing to call pseudoscientific anything you can do that they can't.
— Sahara Sanders
Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.
— S. Kelley Harrell
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?
— Johnny Carson
People these days can't seem to tolerate one moment without entertainment!
— Samuel A. Aykroyd
It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.
— Abhijit Naskar
All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
— Blaise Pascal
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
— Arthur Smith
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
— John Mortimer
It was a time of beautiful brutal illusions.
— Mick Karabegovic
It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.
— Malcolm Potts
Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before ...
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
— John Betjeman
...for recent sociologists the dark secret at the heart of modern individualism is its failure as a mode of life...
— Lee Patterson
When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.
— King Edward VIII
The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
— Golda Meir
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
The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.
— Frank Mankiewicz
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
— Oscar Wilde
The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less.
— Vaclav Havel
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
— Kurt Vonnegut
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.
— Charles Spurgeon
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
— Matthew Kelly
Health can be disrupted so easily by the habits of modern life.
— Kulreet Chaudhary
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
— Francis Picabia
People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.[Afterword] — Michael Chabon
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If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.
— Albert Einstein
Rich in material, but Devoid of Knowledge is like having an antique Clock with no numbers. Appealing to the eye, but Useless in the modern world.
— Andrea L'Artiste
My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.
— Bruce Barton
To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.
— Bertrand Russell
Escapism preserves our sanity when the ever-increasing complexity and pace of modern life becomes too much.
— Fennel Hudson
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
— A. N. Wilson
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
— Robert Lanza
Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
— Paul J. Zak
