Eras Quote by James Fallows Download Open image “Every previous era looks innocent.” — James Fallows ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eras Innocent Looks
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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