Modern Life Quotes - Page 2

• Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

  Jacob Braude

  Use, Antiques, Chairs

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• Modern life. Where are we running? Sometimes what we want is not always where we are... Are we alone? Is the real winter inside our hearts? We are all struggling for definition in a world that resists our increase.

  Aziz Ansari

  Running, Real, Struggle

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". "Parks and Recreation/ Summer Catalog" (Season 2, Episode 20), www.imdb.com. 2010.

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

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Cameras, Describing, Seems

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• The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else - at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.

  Paul MacCready

  School, Ideas, People

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

  Albert Einstein

  Plumber, Ifs, Has Beens

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• 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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stress, Responsibility, Needs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Giving, Doe

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.31, Open Road Media

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Able, Trouble, Modern

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• We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

  Will Rogers

  Fighting, People, Independence

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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

  King Edward VIII

  Golf, Play, Dies

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• Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.

  Russell Baker

  Wall, Home, Years

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• There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.

  Robert J. White

  Mistake, Careers, People

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• They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.

  Robert Orben

  Kids, Dollars, Today

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

  Cal Stoll

  Leadership, Sports, Schedules

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

  James Thurber

  Generations, Trouble, Enough

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

  Sam Levenson

  Modern, Taxes

  Sam Levenson (1979). “You can say that again, Sam! The choice wit and wisdom of Sam Levenson”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

  Don DeLillo

  Fun, Boring, Reason

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• What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  Sam Levenson

  Should Have, Liberty, Taxation

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

  Dorothy Kilgallen

  Doors, Hands, Car

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

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Unconventional, Rebellious

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

  Giorgio Armani

  Modern, Attire, Flexible

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life Changing, Ideas, Years

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.296, e-artnow

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• The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

  Art Buchwald

  Son, Doors, House

  Art Buchwald (1986). “"You can fool all of the people all the time"”, Fawcett Books

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• Fish and guests in three days are stale.

  John Lyly

  Three, Guests, Fishes

  John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

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• 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

  Change, Buddhist, Buddhism

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