Quotes by Modern Life I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention. Richard Davidson modern-life focus thinking As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life. Richard J. Foster opiates modern-life needs Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature. Richard Dawkins modern-life goal use This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny. Robert Benchley modern-life office night Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria. Robert Benchley modern-life class children Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. Robert Motherwell unconventional modern-life art 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 modern-life book school 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 dollars modern-life kids Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity. Rocko modern-life luck soul Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget. Russell Baker news-stories modern-life defense I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up. Sam Levenson taxes modern modern-life What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching? Samuel Hoffenstein awful modern-life lucky Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life. Simone Weil modern-life life-is action Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life. Susan Orlean internet modern-life choices Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties Susan Sontag modern-life loss culture If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon. Wernher von Braun modern-life land moon Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse. Will Rogers modern-life goes-on years One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets. Will Rogers car modern-life way The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over. Will Rogers horse modern-life running The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful. William F. Buckley, Jr. awful modern-life say-anything «1234567»