Quotes About Modern

It had been supposed, until our time, that despotism was odious, under whatever form it appeared. But it is a discovery of modern days that there are such things as legitimate tyranny and holy injustice, provided they are exercised in the name of the people.

Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I'd never been inside a smile before. Who'd have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once

She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.

She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.

Kay and Beverly were a disappointment to me. They worked hard at Modern Languages, but their conversation and preoccupations seemed hardly different from those of girls who might work in banks or offices.

Steak swallowers zonked on Television!

Should I text him? What is the optimum amount of time to leave before texting him back? As if love were an algorithm. Will he hate me if we don't shag on the first date? Thirty years ago, the question was, Will he think I'm a slut if I have sex with him too soon? Honestly, I'm struggling to see this as progress. The pursuit of love is exhausting and most ridiculous.

n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.    ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.

ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds,—exoteric, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and esoteric, those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time.

Acaso el diagnóstico médico de nuestros tiempos modernos no equivale en realidad a un maleficio vudú?

On the other hand, it was a well-known fact that cell phones were tools of the devil. He selected

Wayne didn't interact with nature. He took pictures of it with his iPhone and then bent over the screen and poked at it. His favorite thing about the lake house was that it had Wi-Fi.

The discrepancies between Puritan and modern evangelism should prompt us to revert back to the older message where the whole of Scripture is addressed to the whole man.

Los puritanos quedarían espantados ante la actual tendencia de la evangelización moderna que pretende meramente rescatar a los pecadores del infierno pero posterga la sumisión de estos al señorío soberano de Cristo para más tarde.

Tyler said to Chloe: There are many things that men don't do any more that they should. Particularly for women.

We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation.

There's a scientific debate about the precise scale of our sleep loss, but the National Sleep Foundation has calculated that the amount of sleep we get has dropped by 20 percent in just a hundred years.

The sensation of being alive in the early twenty-first century consisted of the sense that our ability to pay attention—to focus—was cracking and breaking.

I wondered if the motto for our era should be: I tried to live, but I got distracted.

American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.

In a world that thinks there's no such thing as society, the idea that our depression and anxiety have social causes will seem incomprehensible. It's like talking in ancient Aramaic to a twenty-first-century kid.

The concept of "work hours" is vanishing for most people—so this thing that 87 percent of us don't enjoy is spreading over more and more of our lives.

wondered if in some ways we are increasingly speed-reading life, skimming hurriedly from one thing to another, absorbing less and less.

The increase in the volume of information is what creates the sensation of the world speeding up.