Our Time Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same
  age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly
  seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to
  place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they
  are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves
  to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the
  slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death
  amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among
  the latter.

  Petrarch

  Recovery, Doctors, People

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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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• The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.

  Stephen Covey

  Keys, Ability, Grows

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.

  Joseph Bologna

  Country, Play, Wife

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• The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.

  Salil Shetty

  Issues, Defining, Privacy

  "Davos 2014: Top 10 Quotes of the Day". www.weforum.org. January 22, 2014.

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• An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.

  Giles Foden

  Determination, Honesty, Book

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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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• I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Writing, Trying, Depth

  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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• If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving Up, Chance, Youth

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• Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Sacrifice, Justice, Liberty

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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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• Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Crazy, Reality, Boss

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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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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• What we want to do is make sure they're not totally kept from what's going on in the world. We don't want to seclude them but, at the same time, we want them to have wisdom and discernment to make wise decisions - to protect them through the love of the family and the value that we have in one another and in the Lord and our time in Scripture. Finding that balance is not an easy task but it can be done.

  Alex Kendrick

  Wise, Decision, Balance

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I'm post-menopausal. I have nothing but time. Post-menopausal do not sleep. You obviously don't know one. We get about three hours of sleep a night and the rest of the time we have to do something productive with our time.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Sleep, Night, Three

  "Kathie Lee Gifford talks about how her own life and trials prepared her to bring the story of scandalized 1920’s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to Broadway". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Some of the key components, we wanted it to be so far into the future that you weren't talking about our time. I was joking that the AMC cinematic universe is after the zombie apocalypse by hundreds and hundreds of years.

  Alfred Gough

  Keys, Talking, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

  Emma Goldman

  Exercise, Men, Shoes

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.428, Courier Corporation

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