Current Era Quotes

#1. In the current era, to take adjustments in worldly interactions is knowledge (Gnan). One is to adjust to 'disadjustments'.

Dada Bhagwan

#2. The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.

Bill Moyers

#3. To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn't it? The one who proceeds with caution will win.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. Some have argued that the current era of rapid technological progress serves labor, and some have argued that it serves capital. What both camps have slighted is the fact that technology is not only integrating existing sources of labor and capital but also creating new ones.

Anonymous

#5. There is no place for beggary [wanting things from others] in the current era. The law of vyavasthit [scientific circumstantial evidences] is such that one who has decided never to beg, will never have situation to beg.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. Those who speak the truth in this world; they fall out of favor, in the current era of inflated lies.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#7. Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

Steve Sailer

#8. I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

Nalo Hopkinson

#9. Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.

Johan Rockstrom

#10. I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.

Hope Barrett

#11. And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

James Young

#12. Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.

Mark Deklin

#13. We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Douglas Coupland

#14. If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

Jil Sander

#15. There really wasn't anything suave about him," Ankenbrandt said. "We all worked twenty hours a day, and he worked twenty-three hours.

Ashlee Vance

#16. I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

Paula Poundstone

#17. Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

Arianna Huffington

#18. I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.

Randall Park

#19. Some said the world would end in 1533. Last year had its adherents too. Why not this year? There is always somebody ready to claim that these are the end times, and nominate his neighbor as the Antichrist.

Hilary Mantel

#20. Dream. Desire. Dare.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.

Ernst Mayr

#22. Consciously, she thought she had her feelings for him licked; subconsciously, every time she thought about him, it was as though someone stumbling around inside her head had kicked over a bucket of electric eels.

John Ramsey Miller

#23. The moment we were in was a hinge - the past swung on one side, the future on the other.

Ramona Ausubel

#24. My coolest job was when I was 12 and I was a dishwasher at the Three Pigs Bar-B-Que for $2.50 an hour. All the fleabags and stoners worked there, so that's where I wanted to be.

Jared Leto

#25. New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal.

Johnny Damon

#26. Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.

Richard Dawkins