#our time

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#consciences #contrary #existed #external #intolerable

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day. ↗

— Thomas Vilsack

#challenge #choice #day #friends #go

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. ↗

— George Wald

#always #defense #departments #now #other

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. ↗

— Chris Ware

#almost #children #concepts #dismiss #engaging

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time. ↗

— Bill Williams

#john #john paul #leaders #man #most

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#been #conformity #creative #despotism #differences

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time. ↗

— Lisa Guerrero

#broadcasting #decisions #make #our time #spend

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#every #go #i #know #me

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#his #our #our time #popular #rejected

We have not the time to take our time. ↗