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By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion — Garry Kasparov

I had to bear witness in order to protect the future, bear witness in order to overcome the amnesia of my contemporaries. — Pierre Seel

I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself. — Samuel Beckett

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with. — Richard M. Rorty

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today. — Kangana Ranaut

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long. — Hannah More

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us. — Leo Tolstoy

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries. — Pablo Picasso

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany. — Franz Mehring

He was so pleasant that his fellow writers, his rivals and contemporaries, forgave him even the fact that he was a gentleman. — W. Somerset Maugham

Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself. — James Madison

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. — Gustav Mahler

Contemporaries cannot be good judges. — Italo Calvino

Are we to execrate our age- or all ages?
Do we think of Buddha as withdrawing from the world on account of his contemporaries? — Emil Cioran

When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge. — Raymond Floyd

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries. — Henry David Thoreau

The medieval islamic world offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its successors — Bernard Lewis

If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. — Gwendolyn Brooks

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. — Alex Cox

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. — Boris Pasternak

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer. — David Bowie

Only Gnostics and contemporaries qualify, for they alone are both severed from their unconscious and aware of the fact. — C. G. Jung

I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing. — Rosamund Pike

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy. — Joseph J. Ellis

In the eyes of his contemporaries, he was a man who had committed the one unforgivable sin; he was proud of his wealth. — Ayn Rand

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants
both know too much of him. — Charles Caleb Colton

Why was I born with such contemporaries? — Oscar Wilde

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. — Charles Caleb Colton

It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them. — Odilon Redon

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation. — Gertrude Stein

The great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time. — Ellen Glasgow

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not. — Sally Field

I already felt disengaged with my contemporaries. — Kyle MacLachlan

I've been very lucky. I've written for most of my idols and the contemporaries. — Alan Zweibel

It is very likely that workhouse children were better fed than their contemporaries living at home with poor parents. Of — Lesley Hulonce

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself. — James Stewart

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they. — Ambrose Bierce

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are. — Robert Forster

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. — Seamus Heaney

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

First-wave video games and second-wave feminism were contemporaries. — Nick Dyer-Witheford

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

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth. — Karl Kraus

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious. — Elliott Erwitt

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

I can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable. — Deepika Padukone

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things. — Jamie Bell

As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone. — Richard A. Proctor

How many of your contemporaries - when asked the question 'Are you glad you had kids'? - invariably respond 'Yes, but..'? — Alex Morritt

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity. — Joyce Carol Oates

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores. — Barry Humphries

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically. — Robert Gottlieb

The desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries. — Suzanne La Follette

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire. — Vera Brittain

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion. — Barry Humphries

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. — Cesare Pavese

History belongs above all to the man ... who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating. — Kathy Griffin

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died. — Henry David Thoreau

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor. — Ambrose Bierce