Quotes and Sayings About Modern Life
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
-- A. N. Wilson -
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.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.
-- Andy Rooney -
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.
-- Aubrey McClendon -
Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.
-- Barack Obama -
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
-- Bear Grylls -
It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
-- Ben Aaronovitch -
Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
-- Bill Vaughan -
All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
-- Blaise Pascal -
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.
-- Brit Marling -
My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.
-- Bruce Barton -
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 -
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
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 on others and others depend on us, our outlook will change. We’ll begin to see 'others' not as somehow distant from us, but as people we are in touch with, people close to us; we will no longer feel indifferent to them.
-- Dalai Lama -
Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.
-- danah boyd -
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 -
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. 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 -
The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.
-- David Gerrold -
We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
-- Ed Koch -
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
-- Edward Ruscha -
When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.
-- Edward Teller -
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.
-- Fran Lebowitz -
A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.
-- Fran Lebowitz -
The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.
-- Frank Mankiewicz -
In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.
-- Gael Greene -
Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.
-- George Ade -
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 modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.
-- Gerald Stanley Lee -
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
-- Gore Vidal
