Modern Life Quotes - Page 8

• 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

  Way, Faces, Break

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

  Pete Rose

  Running, Home, Cadillacs

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• Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Powerful, Two, Essentials

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• There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.

  Will Rogers

  Smart, Two, Railroads

  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world.

  Andrew Weil

  People, World, Disease

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Modern, Objects

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• The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.

  Richard Conniff

  Black, Age, Tourists

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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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• 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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• The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.

  Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Europe, Black, Culture

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• There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Love, Relationship, Truth

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• Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.

  William O. Douglas

  Party, Technology, Air

  "Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 19, 1972.

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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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• 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 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.

  Drake Bell

  Dark, Generations, Grew Up

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

  Robert Orben

  Book, School, Form

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