Generations Quotes - Page 70

My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.

If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental.

I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

My writer and I sat down and wrote a huge list of names of women to consider. It was really important to us to have a broad range of women from across generations and cultures. We didn't want to make it Western-focused, we wanted to make sure it was international and that it had an intersectional lens.

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.

There have been great champions in every generation.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

A chaste generation would restore Paradise.

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.

We cannot predict the effects of our actions, especially our collective actions over generations or centuries, to use instrumental reasoning toward these big final ends to tell us what we ought to do.

Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.

You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.