Modern Life Quotes

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

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 to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.

Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

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.

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

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 the state of nature.

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

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.

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.