20 Modern life Quotes & Sayings with Wallpapers & Posters

Q: What is the best Modern life quote?

"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Q: What are some Modern life quotes?

"Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. [Open Letter, O Magazine , July 2006]" - Harper Lee "My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb "What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Q: What are some short Modern life quotes?

"As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth." - Edward Abbey "The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb "the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life." - Oscar Wilde

Q: What is good short Modern life quote?

"A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars." - Alan S. Kesselheim

But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out - what happened.

I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been born in 1929.

Mindfulness Quotes / Age Quotes Distractions Quotes It Chooses You Quotes Modern life Quotes

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

Camping Quotes Let Them Paddle: Coming of Age on the Water Quotes Modern life Quotes Outdoors Quotes

The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.

History Quotes / Modern life Quotes Strangers at the Feast Quotes

...apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953...The wonders portrayed in THE JETSONS, the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass...Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down compared to what people saw two or three generations ago.

Modern life Quotes Technological progress Quotes The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History Quotes Got Sick Quotes and Wil Quotes

I’m sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands,” Kitteredge said. “He’s a friend of the family.”So that’s it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.

Truth Quotes / A Cool Breeze on the Underground Quotes Modern life Quotes Slavery Quotes

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Depression Quotes / Cure diseases without medicines Quotes Cures Quotes Depression humor Quotes Modern life Quotes

On the sidewalks everyone holding either a giant coffee or a cell phone, as though a law had been declared against public displays of empty-handedness.

Modern life Quotes The Damned Quotes

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

Change Quotes / Attentiveness Quotes Modern life Quotes Tradition Quotes

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions

Academia Quotes Academics Quotes Darwin Quotes Einstein Quotes Freud Quotes Institutions Quotes

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

Fear Quotes / Death Quotes Evangelism Quotes Modern Quotes Modern life Quotes Modern values Quotes Modernity Quotes

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

Bragging Quotes Dating Quotes Dating advice Quotes Internet Quotes Men and women Quotes Modern life Quotes

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Business ethics Quotes Corruption Quotes Court system Quotes Courts Quotes Ethical behaviour Quotes Ethics Quotes

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

Internet addiction Quotes Modern life Quotes Modern society Quotes Modernity Quotes Modernity is a sickness Quotes Slavery Quotes

The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured travel time in between…Too, the rhetoric of efficiency around these technologies suggests that what cannot be quantified cannot be valued-that that vast array of pleasures which fall into the category of doing nothing in particular, of woolgathering, cloud-gazing, wandering, window-shopping, are nothing but voids to be filled by something more definite, more production, or faster-paced…I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought or thoughtfulness.

Daydreaming Quotes Modern life Quotes Walking Quotes Wanderlust: A History of Walking Quotes

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change and improvement are continuous and relentless. This is part of the reason we must keep checking the news in the first place: we might at any moment be informed of some extraordinary development that will fundamentally alter reality. Time is an arrow following a precarious, rapid and yet tantalizingly upward trajectory.

Change Quotes Technology Quotes Time Quotes / Advancement Quotes Improvement Quotes Modern life Quotes Modernity Quotes News Quotes The News: A User's Manual Quotes

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.

Beauty Quotes / How Proust Can Change Your Life Quotes Modern life Quotes

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

Modern life Quotes Sin Quotes The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh."[Afterword]

Reading Quotes / Anachronisms Quotes Books Quotes Gentlemen of the Road Quotes Modern life Quotes Modern society Quotes

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]

Reading Quotes / Books Quotes Communication Quotes Computers Quotes Critical thinking Quotes Modern life Quotes Superficiality Quotes

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