If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be…

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

— Robert Forster

When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great…

— Joseph Addison

Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his…

— Harold E. Varmus

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

— Karl Kraus

“Contemporaries cannot be good judges.”

— Italo Calvino

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had…

— Henry David Thoreau

Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.

— Odilon Redon

“The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong…

— Virginia Woolf

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period…

— David Steinberg

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't…

— Carroll Shelby

I follow the work of my contemporaries. I love their work.

— Jackie Shroff

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I…

— George Woodcock