Our Time Quotes
787 Our Time quotes by 635 unique authors
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There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us…
— Henry Miller
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...the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to…
— Rod Serling
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There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then…
— Robert Henri
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The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in…
— Thomas Paine
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While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things…
— Elfriede Jelinek
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We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing…
— Oswald Chambers
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Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone…
— Dean Koontz
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This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it,…
— Diana Gabaldon
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One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.
— Henri Nouwen
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James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.
— Andy Warhol
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I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president…
— Howard Zinn
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I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think…
— Ruth Hurmence Green
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So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Look, I realize both of you could happily strangle each other across the table, but I don't think that's the most effective use of our…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our…
— Julia Cameron
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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be…
— Wendell Berry
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It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state,…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.
— Nicholas Sparks
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It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is…
— John Fowles
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