Our Time Quotes - Page 16

• I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

  Richard Curtis

  Believe, Book, Candor

  Richard Curtis (2003). “How To Be Your Own Literary Agent: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

  Paul Johnson

  Family, Parent, Institutions

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• Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

  James Thurber

  Men, Greed, Want

  James Thurber (1956). “Further fables for our time”

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• More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators.

  Christopher Bond

  Mean, Simple, Long

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• When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

  Robert Morgan

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

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• When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

  Ted Turner

  World, One More Day

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• I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher and deeper motive for living, is going to be driven to fight the good fight in one way or another... And in order to fight the good fight, we have to engage, we have to get into the ring, not just stand outside it and be philosophers.

  Andrew Cohen

  Believe, Fighting, Order

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• I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

  Abigail Adams

  Perseverance, Fate, Order

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE

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• My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.

  Russell Crowe

  Artist, Thinking, Lines

  "American Gangster - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer.

  Larry Siedentop

  Impact, Pedestal, Citizens

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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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• We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Feet, Sound, Half

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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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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• In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the beginning of time till now, we are always asking the same questions. There are very few. We are looking for God, we are asking why we die, we are contemplating sex and the beauty of nature. The only thing that changes is that, in each period of questioning, we speak with the language of our time.

  Christian Boltanski

  Art, Sex, Asking Why

  "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Expression, Challenges, Middle East

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I invite all to trust in the merits and in the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Through His atoning sacrifice, we can gain the courage to win all the wars of our time, even in the midst of our difficulties, challenges, and temptations. Let us trust in His #‎ love and power to save.

  Ulisses Soares

  Jesus, War, Sacrifice

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• New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

  Gottfried Bohm

  Fit, Building, Surroundings

  Gottfried Böhm, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1986). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm”

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• Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.

  Michael Hersch

  Artist, Rome, Piano

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Trying, Waste, Wasting Time

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

  Glenn Frey

  Jobs, Band, Sometimes

  "The Eagles' Greatest Hit" by Bill Simmons, grantland.com. August 14, 2013.

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• What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Fashion, Interesting, Moments

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• Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

  William J. Clinton

  Powerful, Communication, Ambition

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1, Best Books on

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• I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time and history, the tremendous loss and tragedy as well as greatness and nobility, an imagination capable of recognizing that where there is light there is shadow, that out of hubris and fall can come moral regeneration, out of suffering and death, resurrection and rebirth.

  Richard Tarnas

  Believe, Fall, Loss

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• If God had wanted us to spend all our time fretting about the problems of home ownership, He would never have created beer. This is not to say that I am recommending that you totally ignore your responsibilities as a homeowner and just sit around all day with a can of beer in your hand. No indeed, I have long been a believer in purchasing bottled beer, and pouring it into a chilled glass.

  Dave Barry

  Responsibility, Home, Beer

  Dave Barry (2010). “Homes and Other Black Holes”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Land, Organization

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