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Quotes About Era

The "Vasco da Gama's era" ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
we're wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.
~ Tessa Hadley
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The Age of Miracles is forever here!
~ Thomas Carlyle
I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.
~ John Caudwell
The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.
~ John Fogerty
Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the rock era. Not the greatest genius - just the most musical in the broadest sense.
~ Robert Christgau
I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.
~ Albert Reynolds
It would indeed be fortunate for Mexico if a new era of PRI presidencies were a sign of healthy rotation in power rather than a regrettable step backwards.
~ Denise Dresser
I'm at the forefront of the NXT women's division, and it's really humbling to think that I'm not just a part of this new era but that I'm the leader of it.
~ Bayley
If you talk about natural ability, I think Apollo's probably the most naturally gifted athlete of the new era.
~ Sheamus
I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.
~ Nellie McKay
According to whether one follows St Luke or St Matthew, the Christian Era began either in the last year of Herod the Great (4 BC) or in the year of the first Roman census in Judaea (AD 6–7).
~ Norman Davies
Clinton instinctually reflected the ambivalence of the era in an optimistic way. Relative to the rest of the twentieth century, the nineties were a good time to be president, and he was a good president for good times.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Every visual reflects the same statement: The hedonistic, euphoric, high-gloss 1980s are over. It took five minutes to killdoze an entire decade.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Daca aveai de gand sa fii ingrijorat, ai nimerit secolul care trebuia!
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Medical chests of the era contained a brass mortar and pestle to grind compounds, and a selection of surgical
~ Laurence Bergreen
Sömürgecili?in mezar kaz?c?s? olarak ça??m?z?n iki büyük ideolojisi el ele vermi?tir: milliyetçilik ve sosyalizm.
~ Cemil Meriç
I don't know when, but apparently ages ago—about
~ Charles Dickens
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
~ Charles Dickens
All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.
~ CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.
~ Greg Mortenson
Ramon Besa put it wonderfully: 'He is a bit of a Quixote. In an era of fast food, Pep wants degustation football, as if it were a wine.
~ Guillem Balagué