Contemporary
Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Contemporary, Famous, Forget, Outlived
I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person’s hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Contemporary, Famous, Fiction, Lonliness, Times, Women
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.
Author: I.M.PeiTopics: Acceptance, Architects, Changed, Contemporary, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Roots
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.
Author: I.M.PeiTopics: Architecture, Changed, Contemporary
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: activism, Contemporary, Easily, Famous, Fighting, Idealist, Life, Meaningful, Overwork, Peace, Pervasive, Violence
Crack cocaine is the contemporary beaver, an international fad that has radically altered the economics of the poorest, marginal people, indigenous America. The gangs are the tribes of the New World
Author: A. A. GillTopics: America, Contains, Contemporary, Content, Economic arguments, International, International relation, People, People Respect, Poor, Works, World
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
Author: Gabriel MarcelTopics: Contemporary, Famous, Men, Thinker
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological, and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilization. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralyzed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Civilization, Concern, Contemporary, Different, Express, Famous, Inspirational, Overproduction, Threatened, Well-being