Our Time Quotes - Page 40

• We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

  Paulo Coelho

  Time, Novelists, Buying

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 05, 2015

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• How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

  Alice Walker

  Impact, Time On Earth, World

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• I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Views

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.124, Princeton University Press

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• Our times might emphasize equality, which we then mistake for the need for everyone to be the same, but what we really mean by this is the equal chance for people to express their differences, to let a thousand flowers bloom.

  Robert Greene

  Mistake, Flower, Mean

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.40, Profile Books

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• I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Children, Men

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths – just because they can't think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my Avengers idea that I made up myself.

  Joss Whedon

  Thinking, Reflection, Ideas

  "Joss Whedon bares his teeth over new Buffy film" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.

  Adolf Hitler

  Way, Approval, Determined

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?

  Jacob Needleman

  Each Day, Used, Ends

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• Be ruthless in one important area: Yourself. Be ruthless about your commitment to Christ. Be ruthless about your intellectual growth. Be ruthless about finishing well. One of the biggest areas we should be ruthless about is our time. How much time do you spend complaining about your problems to people who can't help you solve them? How much time do you talk when you should be doing? When it comes to others, be gracious. But when it comes to you and your time, be ruthless.

  Phil Cooke

  Commitment, People, Intellectual

  "Maybe It’s Time Christians Learned These “Non-Christian” Habits" by Phil Cooke, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.

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• It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can . . . explore the depths of the seas and build an international space station, we have not been able to make childbirth safe for all women around the world. ... This is one of the greatest social causes of our time.

  Thoraya Obaid

  Sea, Space, Depth

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• The soul is one of the most venerable, enduring images of spiritual traditions worldwide. In The Great Field, John James brings new information to this ancient concept, and in so doing helps bridge the worlds of modern science and spirituality, which is one of the most urgent tasks of our time.

  Larry Dossey

  Spiritual, Bridges, Soul

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• I believe that, seven generations beyond us, those who look back on our time will find that it was the cry of the trees that helped to restart the dreaming and foster the understanding that we must dream not only for ourselves but also for our communities and for all that shares life with us in our fragile bubble of air.

  Robert Moss

  Dream, Believe, Air

  Robert Moss (2011). “Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom”, p.192, New World Library

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• Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Military, Compassion, Opportunity

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• World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Hate, Commitment

  Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

  George Orwell

  Sleep, People, Interesting

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• Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square and in the process of walking outside of it. Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?

  Bill Watterson

  Squares, Important, Doe

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• Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

  Lawrence Summers

  Inspiring, Risk, Economic

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• We all have 1,440 minutes each day to accomplish everything on our schedule. We are accountable for prioritizing the decisions we make with our time.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Decisions We Make

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• We will not have any more crashes in our time.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Depression, Great Depression, Crash

  "The Raven of Zurich". Book by Felix Somary, 1986.

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• The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Evil, Poverty

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• Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Earth, Sacred, Celebration

  "The Witch of Portobello: A Novel (P.S.)". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2006.

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• The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Children, School

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• To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

  Patricia Arquette

  Equality, Rights, America

  Patricia Arquette's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2015.

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• Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used. But what man should seek in regard to nature is not a complete domination but a modus vivendi - that is, a manner of living together, a coming to terms with something that was here before our time and will be here after it. The important corollary of this doctrine, it seems to me, is that man is not the lord of creation, with an omnipotent will, but a part of creation, with limitations, who ought to observe a decent humility in the face of the inscrutable.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Humility, Men, Important

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• No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused! From now on, we fight will for every man out there who isn't getting laid when he should be! This is our day! This is our time! And, by God, we're not gonna let history condemn us to celibacy! We will make a stand! We will succeed! We will get laid!

  Kevin Myers

  Fighting, Men, Pie

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