#tempo

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#any #anybody #aware #complicated #contemporary

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#temporary #test #these #time #tonic

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. ↗

— Simone Weil

#contemporary #form #founded #greatness #lies

Why was I born with such contemporaries? ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#contemporaries #i #such #why

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. ↗

— Kit Williams

#ancient #contemporary #contemporary society #engine #i

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#least #maturity #sometimes #success #temporarily

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture. ↗

— Alex Winter

#burnt #cool #cool thing #culture #end

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#extinct #interest #lasts #over #speaks

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#around #because #buildings #came #contemporary

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No. ↗

— Amy Grant

#christian music #contemporary #good #i #i think