Our Time Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he 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. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Years, Land

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jesus, Powerful, Love You

  "Madonna: 'I want to be like Gandhi'", www.chinadaily.com.cn. February 17, 2007.

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• Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'

  Mel Brooks

  Artist, Swings, Together

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.

  Kingsley Amis

  Reputation, Now And Then, Conscious

  Kingsley Amis (1991). “Memoirs”, Vintage

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• In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Men, Evil, Good Man

  William Sloane Coffin (1977). “Once to Every Man: A Memoir”, Atheneum Books

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• I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

  Johnny Damon

  Want, Being The Best

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• If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

  Hillary Clinton

  Beautiful, Fighting, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

  David Cameron

  Hero, Legends, Figures

  "Nelson Mandela: world leaders mourn inspirational figure" by Conal Urquhart, Dan Roberts, Paul Lewis, Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

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• The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mean, Profound, Use

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time

  Thomas Berry

  Meaningful, Keys, Issues

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• By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

  Daniel Pennac

  Making Time

  "1. The right not to read", www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.

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• Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

  Christopher Lasch

  Democracy, Indifference, Intolerance

  Christopher Lasch (1996). “The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do that.

  Camille Henrot

  Thinking, Would Be, Opinion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough.

  Camille Henrot

  Believe, Expression, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We were born ahead of our time. Don't forget that the riot-grrl scene had a lot to do with making The Slits a legend, and that didn't happen until the early '90s. We couldn't get together before then, because the legend hadn't been built yet. In the 2000s, we've become bigger than life in that way. It's become really important for The Slits to be here now, but idealistically, we should have done it in the '90s.

  Ari Up

  Should Have, Important, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Country, Poverty

  Pope Francis (2013). “I Ask You to Pray for Me: Opening a Horizon of Hope”, p.44, Paulist Press

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• Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.

  Ben Shapiro

  Media, Political, President

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• The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.

  Robert D. Hales

  Events, Prophecy, Savior

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• In the upshot there is only one answer for the preacher who wonders whether he is worthy to preach the sermon he has composed or for the writer who wonders whether he is worthy to write the religious book he is working on. The answer is: Of course not. To ask yourself: Am I worthy to perform this Christian task? is really the peak of pride and presumption. For the very question carries the implication that we spend most of our time doing things we are worthy to do. We simply do not have that kind of worth.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Religious, Book

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• In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Order, Slavery, Labour

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• "Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself.
  The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for?

  William Bennett

  Mean, Heart, Honor

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• Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Decision, Doubt, Suffering

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• The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Drinking, Opportunity, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.376, 谷月社

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• "Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.

  Ayya Khema

  Mean, Giving, Energy

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