W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.”
Source: ABC of Reading
“We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.”
“We live in an age of too much information, very little knowledge, and even less wisdom.”
Source: How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
“We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.”
Source: Cinq Mars (Complete)
“We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.”
Source: The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking
“We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?”
“We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel
“We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.”
“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.”
“We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.”
“We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.”
“We live in an age when private life is being destroyed. The police destroy it in Communist countries, journalists threaten it in democratic countries, and little by little the people themselves lose their taste for private life and their sense of it. Life when one can’t hide from the eyes of others — that is hell.”
“We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.”
“We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.”
“We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.”
“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store windows, or just reach for the yellow pages and have them delivered. It is the same mindset at work, spreading in our world, and after a while this attitude can find nothing very special about anything or anybody, let alone whales.”
Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.”
“We live in an age where apps update themselves but our mindset doesn't.”
“We live in an age where corporations are people and employees are not.”
“We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.”
“We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.”
“We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.”
“We live in an age where our career becomes a key playground through which to derive a sense of identity, fulfilment, and meaning. A job is no longer just a way to pay the bills.”
Source: Leaving Law: How Others Did It and How You Can Too
“We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.”
“We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up. Maybe text me later? But don't call because I don't really listen to my messages. But if you text me..." We've displaced interaction into sound bites and untethered phrases and sentences that come up on the phone as Twitter feed.”
“We live in an age where people pride themselves on individualism and the concept of living authentically. The human race strives towards self-help and desires nothing if not constant self-improvement both inward and outward. So, I ask you, what can be more authentic than learning the truth? How can one form their unique self without first knowing more possibilities? How can a person truly strive for such grandiose dreams of self-improvement without the ability to listen to the advice and knowledge of others?”
Source: The Irrational Mind: How To Fight Back Against The Hidden Forces That Affect Our Decision Making
“We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece.”
“We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.”
“We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones.”
“We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.”
“We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.”
“We live in an age where there is both more expression and more self-censorship than existed even a decade ago. Alas, laws have immunized internet carriers from many of the usual rules that govern public dialogue. Rights must always stay ahead of technology to assure that constitutional protections apply to all forms of communication.”
“We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.”
“We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.”
“We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.”
“We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.”
“We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.”
“We live in an anaesthetized society.”
“We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.”
“We live in an energetic world. We are made up of energy. Everything is made up of energy. Protect yours.”
“We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.”
Source: Blind Lake
“We live in an epidemic of self-hatred. I see it daily with people coming at me, and they do it to everybody, it's not just me. The hatred is really stemming from them not liking themselves. When you look at it that way, I feel so much empathy and understanding for those people.”
“We live in an era and times where fun is overrated, most of the activities and things that will put bread on your table will not be fun. Probably only 1% of the people on the planet earth have fun while winning their daily bread, and they are always on the TV and on social media telling others about having fun watching them.”
“We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire - based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need. What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment. It's just the idea that we're so wasteful. I think a lot of self - identity and inner - personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.”
“We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.”
“We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.”