Our Time Quotes

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

I saw "Forrest Gump" several times. I personally thought it was Tom Hanks' greatest role and I think it was one of the most eloquent love stories of our time.

There is a massive call for more lightworkers, and now is our time to rise up and bring more positivity to the world.

Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne chance.

The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. And in the end, faith will not disappoint. Faith, hope, and dreams will prevail... Our time has come. Our time has come. Our time has come.

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 true

Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.

The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

Kyle Idleman’s Not a Fan is a crucial message for our time. It’s a powerful call to commitment and to following Jesus with all our hearts that has challenged me in the best of ways!

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff.

Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.

Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.

CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out.

I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.

I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!