Quotes by Modern Life If the shoe fits you're lucky. Malcolm Forbes shoes modern-life lucky O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife. Matthew Arnold modern-life sick heart The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. Mignon McLaughlin modern-life three desire You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter. Mike Connolly modern-life daughter girl Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury. Nassim Nicholas Taleb modern-life stress life-is Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. Neel Burton absurd modern-life healthy Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature. Neil deGrasse Tyson bad-ass modern-life technology I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it. Oscar Wilde secrecy mysterious modern-life We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia. P. J. O'Rourke modern-life england would-be Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life. Oscar Wilde elements modern-life real 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 depressing modern-life real To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. Oscar Wilde modern-life danger running Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort. Paul Harvey style modern-life tools I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life. Paul Winter modern-life inspiration people Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs. Pete Rose modern-life home running There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in human life in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public. Philip K. Dick modern-life important secret Have you ever known anyone who bought a fruitcake for himself? Of course not. They are purchased as Christmas gifts, mostly for people you don't particularly like. Phyllis Diller modern-life fruitcake people True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is. Ralph Adams Cram modern-life weight numbers Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness. Rebecca Solnit modern-life life-is moving Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck. Richard Condon modern-life made order «1234567»