Modern Life Quotes - Page 8

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Running, Danger, Cowardly

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.16, Oscar Wilde

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

  James Crumley

  Sound, Warfare, Life Is

  FaceBook post by James Crumley from Mar 18, 2016

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• Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions to modern life, three hundred years of scientific-technological development has left our civilization in an untenable position-at odds with its natural environment and ultimately its own deeper, collective, soul. Only a global shift in fundamental perceptions, values, and corresponding actions will allow human-kind to resume an evolutionary pat in alignment with nature and the larger cosmos.

  Edmund Bourne

  Years, Civilization, Technological Development

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• This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Country, Book, Reading

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Art, Good Friend, Essentials

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.12, Random House

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• A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Offering, Essence, Giving

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• Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Water, Drink

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.49, Melville House

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

  Ed Koch

  Worst Enemy, Cuban, Should

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• Classless society is the dream of people with no class.

  Robert Zend

  Dream, Class, People

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Discovery, Vastness, Fallen

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• The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architecture, Modern, Architect

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  May, Chiefs, Interstellar

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

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Flower, Care

  Gore Vidal (1976). “1876: a novel”

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• 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.

  Wilson Mizner

  Mind, Trying, Should

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

  Malcolm Potts

  Pills, Machines, Cigarette

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• 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.

  Aziz Ansari

  Past, Appreciate, Honest

  Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg (2015). “Modern Romance”, p.12, Penguin

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• I was scared of the Bible - it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus's disciples and I used to show them modern life - how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn't change my feelings about the Bible jinx.

  Beth Orton

  Running, Jesus, Couple

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Humanity, Over You

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution.

  James Truslow Adams

  Confused, Men, Years

  "To 'Be' or to 'DO'" Forum, Volume LXXXI, No. 6, June 1929.

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• You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.

  Larry King

  Land, White, Wyoming

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• The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with men in the streets, offices, professions, factories, sports, and now even in political and military life, is one of those dissolutive phenomena in which, in most cases, it is difficult to perceive anything positive. In essence, all this is simply the renunciation of the woman's right to be a woman.

  Julius Evola

  Sports, Military, Men

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• I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

  Abe Lemons

  Football, Years, Games

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

  Francis Bacon

  Usa, Liberty, Debt

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

  James Thurber

  Funny, Humor, Earth

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

  Paul Harvey

  Style, Tools, Use

  Source: www.azom.com

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