Our Time Quotes
787 Our Time quotes by 635 unique authors
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By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we…
— Donna J. Haraway
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What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To…
— Georges Perec
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We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack…
— Harlan Ellison
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It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually…
— Daniel Handler
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Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires…
— Andrew Marvell
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Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never…
— Rebecca Solnit
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...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.
— Henri Matisse
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We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible,…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's…
— Ayn Rand
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I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether…
— Will Durant
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Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the…
— David McCullough
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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.
— John F. Kennedy
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Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
— Dalai Lama
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In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
— Ram Dass
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Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important,…
— Albert Einstein
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There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the…
— Joel Salatin
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Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden…
— Thomas Moore
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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream…
— Barack Obama
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Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.
— Rick Warren
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Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate…
— John Patrick Shanley
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