Our Time Quotes - Page 13

• Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

  Michael Crichton

  Adventure, Discovery, Years

  "Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities: Science Views Media". Speech to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Anaheim, California, January 25, 1999.

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• For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, United States, Transition

  ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”

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• So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Destiny, Opportunity

  "The Action Americans Need". www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2009.

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• Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.

  Camille Paglia

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Interview with Jamie Glazov, historynewsnetwork.org. December 23, 2003.

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• Though perhaps less universally known than such figures as Einstein or Gandhi (who became symbols of our time) Daisetz Suzuki was no less remarkable a man than these. And though his work may not have had such resounding and public effect, he contributed no little to the spiritual and intellectual revolution of our time.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Spiritual, Men, Intellectual

  "Zen and the Birds of Appetite". Book by Thomas Merton, The Abbey of Gethsemani, New Directions, p. 59, 1968.

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• Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Responsibility, Genius, Want

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

  Max Lerner

  Ambition, Vanity, Spy

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Epic, Men, Heroism

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• Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited menu of sports and a discount coupon book of clichés.

  Ellen Goodman

  Sports, Book, Emotional

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

  Judith Martin

  Art, Healing, Epidemics

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

  Jean Kerr

  Mirrors, Done, Chaos

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

  Zig Ziglar

  Acceptance, Tolerance, Virtue

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• If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

  Thomas Sowell

  Regret, Yesterday, Worry

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• The happy problem of our time - longer life.

  Lillian Hellman

  Age, Problem, Longer Life

  Lillian Hellman (1971). “The collected plays”, Little Brown and Company

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• After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Principles, World

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.17, Random House

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• In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.

  Horace Mann

  Country, Men, Names

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.162

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• No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Mirrors, Matter, Individual

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• Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  People, Waiting, Special

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

  Han Suyin

  Vulnerable, Products

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• Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.

  Merle Shain

  Humility, Men, Play

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.

  Dorothee Solle

  Decision, Leaving, Suffering

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Time, Children, Kindness

  Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1889*). “Sermons”

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• [Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer

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• The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  War, Blood, Roots

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