Our Time Quotes
787 Our Time quotes by 635 unique authors
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Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone…
— R. D. Laing
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her…
— John Steinbeck
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The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that…
— Ernest Becker
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Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior -…
— Henry Miller
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The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed…
— Tara Brach
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Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and…
— Suzanne Collins
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The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of one’s life. True…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War…
— Howard Zinn
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He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not.…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
— Stephen King
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Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.
— Stephen King
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It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and…
— Lisa Unger
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Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.
— James Ellroy
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of…
— Carl Sagan
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I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground…
— Félix J. Palma
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She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance,…
— Melina Marchetta
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Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.
— John O'Donohue
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Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to…
— Francis Chan
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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
— Nhat Hanh
Who Wrote These Our Time Quotes
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