Our Time Quotes

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Our legacy is how we spend our time and who we spend it with.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

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 men can bear to live without God.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

"Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

So let's take our time to say what we want. Use what we got before it's all gone.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.

Parliaments are the great lie of our time.

It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.

We lose our time because we lose our attention

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.