Our Time Quotes - Page 38

• We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Time, Talent, Ingratitude

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• They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Motivational, Time, Opportunity

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867”, p.47

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• The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

  John Burroughs

  Time, Garden, Atmosphere

  John Burroughs (1904). “The writings of John Burroughs”

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• It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Time, Future

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.

  J. B. Priestley

  Dream, Real, Self

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• The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.

  Alexander Lowen

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Stress

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• If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.

  Greg Egan

  Fall, Gazing, Faces

  Greg Egan (2010). “Zendegi”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

  Thomas Head Raddall

  Life, Hope, Giving

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• Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

  Catherine Marshall

  Scandal, Poverty, Changed

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• I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

  Henry R. Luce

  Want, Journalism, Tradition

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• Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Judging, Able

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• Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Ideas, Two, Encounters

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• Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

  Lucas Leiva

  Language, Translations

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• Our goal should be that we're going to live life to the fullest, pursuing our passions and dreams, and when it comes our time to go, we will have used as much of our potential as possible.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Live Life, Passion

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Mean, Progress

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Issues, Choices

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• It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

  Angela Carter

  Lovely, Mind, Tragedy

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• Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Wisdom

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• Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Political, Foundation Of Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Two, Evil

  Third Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 23 September 2003, New York, NY

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• Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.

  Ashley Montagu

  Love, Sleep, Men

  Ashley Montagu (1992). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

  Bertrand Delanoe

  Cities, Facts, Architecture

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• Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.

  Jules Feiffer

  Crush, Advice, Patterns

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• Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

  Krista Tippett

  Reality, Silence, Doe

  Krista Tippett (2008). “Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It”, p.45, Penguin

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• It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

  Mark Lawrence

  War, Men, Irony

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.243, Penguin

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