Generations Quotes - Page 47

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

I really do not understand the members of my generation.

After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both

Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security... It's very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you're not more likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things.

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.

A generation of children has been betrayed.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

This is really an opportunity to mobilize a new generation of scholars and pastors not just to equip the saints but also to engage the culture and reclaim it for Christ. That's really what is driving me.

The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.