Eras Quote by James Fallows Download Open image “Every previous era looks innocent.” — James Fallows ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Era Looks Eras Innocent Looks Looks Innocent Previous Previous Era
No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
“We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don’t worth the innocence. And innocent people remain the… — Salman Aziz Copy Share Image
We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things. — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Time of innocence, a time of confidences, long ago it must be. — Simon And Garfunkel Copy Share Image
I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own. — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention?… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
It seems to be the case that for the people who actually are all in with Donald Trump - which is who knows: 35,… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are for 'the youth of the world,' but they're organized and scored by countries. It's no surprise that countries treat them… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
For the time being Scherzer gives Washington a very nice rotation (on paper) with Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmerman, Gio Gonzalez, and Doug Fister, with… — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes. — Avis Bohlen Copy Share Image
He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era. — Laz Alonso Copy Share Image
This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
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