Our Time Quotes - Page 15

• This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Retirement, Home

  "Obama evokes Roosevelt rhetoric". "The World Today with Eleanor Hall", www.abc.net.au. December 7, 2011.

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• The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one's own life in a contextual, big picture fashion - to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Fashion, Psychics, Choices

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.143, Penguin

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• We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.

  Rory Vaden

  Decision, Trying, Needs

  Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.45, Penguin

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• We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Blessed, Fall, Past

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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• John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

  Sid Bernstein

  Giving, Brilliant, Lennon

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• Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.

  John Wooden

  Blessed, Responsibility, Impact

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• In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Philosophy, Mirrors

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• Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. We, however, live in the firm conviction our times will see not the decline but the renaissance of the West. It is our proud hope and our unshakable belief Germany can make an imperishable contribution to this great work.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Europe, Light

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Reality, Birth Control Pills

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• Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.

  Demetri Martin

  People, Television

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is A Book”, p.214, Penguin UK

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• The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

  James Agee

  Cameras, Next, Consciousness

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Christina Aguilera, to me, has one of the greatest voices of our time and I got nothing but respect for her.

  Cee Lo Green

  Voice, Christina

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• A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

  Paul Goldberger

  Strong, Space, Boeing 747

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• People who are homeless, they're not all addicts. A lot of times, they're just people who, through something like losing their job or losing someone in their life, ended up on the streets. So much of our time is spent in cars that sometimes you need to look out of those windows. And you see that a dollar, 50 cents, whatever you have, may not mean much to you, but it means everything to people who are hungry and who are in need.

  George Lopez

  Jobs, Mean, People

  "Kidney transplant inspired Lopez". Interview With Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I think what traditional studios probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the tradition and craft of acting. And it's the latest step. You know, we, we tend to find forms of delivering stories that fit our times.

  Andy Serkis

  Acting, Advancement, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.

  August Sander

  Photography, Sweet, People

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• Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

  August Sander

  Photography, Mean, Fidelity

  August Sander (1980). “August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]”

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• We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Motive

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• My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.

  Greg Proops

  Animal, Years, Feelings

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• The most encouraging trend of our time is the widespread loss of faith in government. No longer do people look to the government as the great problem solver, economic planner, social unifier, or cultural czar. The government is more likely to be seen for what it is, a haven for grafters, liars, and would-be tyrants. Americans, like the Russians, no longer believe anything until it is officially denied.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Liars, Believe, Loss

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• This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say good-bye to life itself with our death. Learn to say a good good-bye. Allow yourself to mourn each loss. As with a physical wound, the body has its own schedule for healing. It will tell you when it has healed.

  Peter McWilliams

  Healing, Loss, Ideas

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• No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Light, Differences

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• One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted, unjust, evil, cruel, painful world and be with us to suffer like us and for us. Meanwhile, we spend most of our time trying to figure out how to avoid the pain and evil of this world while reading dumb books about the rapture just hoping to get out.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Pain, Reading

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• The fight against radical Islamic terrorists and ISIS has been called the war of our time.

  Wolf Blitzer

  War, Islamic, Fighting

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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