Contemporary Life Quotes

22 Contemporary Life quotes by 20 unique authors

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to… — Joseph Campbell
Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am? — June Jordan
To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They… — Pina Bausch
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a… — Martin Parr
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance,… — Leonard Baskin
A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their… — Dallas Willard
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with… — Oscar Wilde
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. — Gore Vidal
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle… — Alfred Kazin
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to… — Alvar Aalto
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the… — Christopher Lasch
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. — Sam Shepard
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story. — Karen Kingsbury
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is… — Luis Barragan
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the… — Billy Joel
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries… — Sidney Poitier
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history,… — Toni Morrison
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so… — Joseph Campbell
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books… — John Updike

Who Wrote These Contemporary Life Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 22 Contemporary Life Quotes as follows: