Our Time Quotes - Page 2

• Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Blessed, Grace, Needs

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• Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

  Clarence Day

  Wisdom, Leader, Worship

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

  Robert Updegraff

  Time, Too Much, Losing

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• Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.

  David Shi

  Contentment, Purpose, Who We Are

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• Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Frustration, Men, Luxury

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• We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sensual, Dying, Energy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

  Edward M Hays

  Money, Simple, Expression

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Art

  "Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

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• London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, London, Epitome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.364, Penguin

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• That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

  George Herbert

  Dust, Flesh, Mortality

  George Herbert (1856). “The poetical works of George Herbert. Illustrated”, p.80

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• Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

  William J. Clinton

  Time, March, Missions

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• The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.

  Marc Chagall

  Nature, Attitude, Eye

  Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall (2008). “Marc Chagall: 1887-1985”, Taschen America Llc

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• What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.

  Stephen Fry

  Tree, Trying, Frogs

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• We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

  Lewis Thomas

  Communication, Talking, Trying

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Lying, Somewhere Else, Choices

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• Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Reality, Ideas

  Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1995). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.

  Clement Greenberg

  Artist, Recognition, Composer

  Clement Greenberg (1961). “Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations”

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• We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in the same direction, and now let's get moving together, doing something for peace.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Religious, Moving, Together

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• I will be asking my network to lead a discussion on the issues of class, race, energy, the environment, disaster planning, Iraq -- all those things and more. This encompasses so many of the major issues of our time.

  Brian Williams

  Race, Class, Iraq

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• When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of passion who want to share their faith and provide quality entertainment for families are working in one of the most powerful media of our time--the interactive video game.

  Jay Moore

  Bible, Powerful, Passion

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• Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some

  Tom Tomorrow

  Space, Liberty, Kingdoms

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• The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

  Gyorgy Kepes

  Giving, Quality, Vitality

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• I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

  Arshile Gorky

  Ideas, Language, Form

  Diane Waddmann, Arshile Gorky (1981). “Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, a Retrospective”

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• The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

  Matthew Arnold

  Knowledge, Science, Knowing

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Celtic Literature”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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• For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Past, Links

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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