Enlightened Times Quotes

#1. These, of course, are far more enlightened times, when it is only acceptable to believe that not being a Christian is likely to mean one is a criminal only if one is a Muslim (or at least so we've been assured by people who claim to know such things),

Peter David

#2. In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Scott Adams

#3. You realize that suicide's a criminal offense - In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

Peter Cook

#4. This was dangerous talk - in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men of an ugly wife and yet more women of an attractive rival.

Joss Alexander

#5. He mulled that over. "Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em."
I reached over and took his coffee away from him. "Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times." I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. "Ain't it grand?

Craig Johnson

#6. Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

Lynn Johnston

#7. There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

Dan Millman

#8. My inbox is the enemy.

Glenn Greenwald

#9. Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.

K. R. Narayanan

#10. Psychology motivates the quality of analysis and puts it to use. Psychology is the driver and analysis is the road map.

Ed Seykota

#11. You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.

Cormac McCarthy

#12. There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.

Charles Lamb

#13. At dusk the sunset is beautifully bright; at year's end the tangerines are even more fragrant. Therefore, at the end of their road, in their later years, enlightened people should be a hundred times more vital in spirit.

Zicheng Hong

#14. The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.

Dorothea Dix

#15. There are only so many times that you can utter 'It does not hurt' before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only LOVE.

Umberto Eco

#17. Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.

Frederick Lenz

#18. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

Paul Newman