Modern Life Quotes

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 they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

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 disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in human life in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

Have you ever known anyone who bought a fruitcake for himself? Of course not. They are purchased as Christmas gifts, mostly for people you don't particularly like.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on wages and salaries. Only when the American people are confronted with the enormous excesses of government in a personal and direct way - by an annual bill for services rendered - will they be able to make an informed judgment about which services they want and which ones they can do without.

The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

If the shoe fits you're lucky.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

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

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

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 illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

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 of modern life.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.