Top Contemporaries Quotes
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
Pierre Loti
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Charles Caleb Colton
Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.
Sun Myung Moon
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
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The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
Pierre Loti 
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In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Charles Caleb Colton
57% of people like this quote
Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.
Sun Myung Moon
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
Barry Humphries
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I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.
Howard Hodgkin
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I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.
Robert Forster
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A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.
Kenneth More
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Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
Gustav Mahler
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