Our Time Quotes - Page 11

• My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.

  Marie Curie

  Husband, Together, Common

  Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Sick, Letters

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• The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

  Edward Abbey

  Speaks Out, Shopping, Rivers

  Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.172, Macmillan

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• My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.

  Bran Ferren

  Mother, Art, Growing Up

  "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.

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• History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

  Alan Bullock

  Past, Race, Nuclear Disarmament

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• My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.

  Karim Rashid

  Real, People, Desire

  "Q&A: Designer Karim Rashid". Express Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Loss, Emotional

  Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.83, Trafford Publishing

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• Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Destiny, Hands, Danger

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

  Clarence Day

  Wisdom, Leader, Worship

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

  Robert Updegraff

  Time, Too Much, Losing

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• We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sensual, Dying, Energy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Art

  "Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

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• London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, London, Epitome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.364, Penguin

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• What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.

  Stephen Fry

  Tree, Trying, Frogs

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• We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

  Lewis Thomas

  Communication, Talking, Trying

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Reality, Ideas

  Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1995). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.

  Clement Greenberg

  Artist, Recognition, Composer

  Clement Greenberg (1961). “Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations”

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• When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of passion who want to share their faith and provide quality entertainment for families are working in one of the most powerful media of our time--the interactive video game.

  Jay Moore

  Bible, Powerful, Passion

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• Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some

  Tom Tomorrow

  Space, Liberty, Kingdoms

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• I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

  Arshile Gorky

  Ideas, Language, Form

  Diane Waddmann, Arshile Gorky (1981). “Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, a Retrospective”

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• The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

  Matthew Arnold

  Knowledge, Science, Knowing

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Celtic Literature”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

  Burton Silverman

  People, Painting, Moments

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• The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Creativity, Giving, Pieces

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• The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2011). “Terrorism and War”, p.19, Seven Stories Press

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• Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Hours, Passing, Enjoy

  "The Lake". Poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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