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Quotes About Bad times

The peace Jesus gives operates in good times or bad, when you are abounding or being abased. His peace operates in the middle of the storm. It
~ Joyce Meyer
In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal prophecy.
~ David Brin
Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.
~ Errol Morris
A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.
~ David Burtka
Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.
~ Jeffrey Lewis
When people talk about conservative government, that's it in a nutshell. We're using taxpayers' money like we would use our own. We're holding in the reins during good times so we're prepared during bad times.
~ Bill Haslam
We don't take this Nazi down, soon, a giant butthole's gonna open in the sky an' dump bad times on everyone." -Wolverine
~ Rick Remender (Author)
There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times. When I first met Candy: those were like the days of juice, when everything was bountiful. Only much later did it all start to seem like sugar and blood, blood and sugar, the endless dark heat.
~ Luke Davies
But this was Saratoga, which I love even during the bad times;
~ Andrew Beyer
We need a system that provides mortgage credit in good times and bad to a broad range of creditworthy borrowers.
~ Jerome Powell
Now my faith in Christ is what gives me confidence for the future. I know that through both good times and bad, He is faithful and will watch over me.
~ Clint Dempsey
soon you could see his speed and his strength for yourself. Never could any wild animal, in the profound depths of the forest, escape, once he pursued. He was very clever at tracking. But now he is in bad times. His master, far from his country, has perished, and the women are careless, and do not look after him; 320 and serving men, when their masters are no longer about, to make them work, are no longer willing to do their rightful duties.
~ Homer
Faith isn't grounded on emotions. It's grounded on the will. It's grounded in the act of taking up your cross and following the Lord wherever He leads, through good times and bad, through dark days and happy ones. We're not tested and tempered in good times, Abby." Ella released her hand and sat back in her chair. "Our true test," she said softly, "lies in the dark night of our despair.
~ Kathleen Morgan
There were good times or goodish times, only the bad times were so—crucial.
~ Iris Murdoch
In the days following the crash, an axiom as old as the Republic came into play once more. In good times Wall Street wanted Washington to leave it alone. In bad times it wanted Washington to act.
~ Haynes Johnson
Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do.
~ Scott Hall
Primitive worshippers are always more than grateful when things go nicely right and very understanding when things go horribly wrong. They never blame their god for the bad times, in fear that he might send more of them, but they are always thankful for the good times. If only a few of them survive a major disaster, their god always gets the credit.
~ Unknown
Why, I think, as you say, to wit, that they are bad times, and bad they will be, until men are better; for they are bad men that make bad times; if men, therefore, would mend, so would the times. It is a folly to look for good days so long as sin is so high, and those that study its nourishment so many
~ William Styron
The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long. And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Memory is a notoriously biased and sentimental editor, selecting what it wants to keep and invariably making a few cosmetic changes to past events. With rose-colored hindsight, the good times become magical; the bad times fade and eventually disappear, leaving only a seductive blur of sunlit days and the laughter of friends. Was it really like that? Would it be like that again?
~ Peter Mayle
When steel sagged, when clothes grew moth-eaten on haberdashery racks, when cars rusted on showroom floors for want of customers, the film industry nevertheless flourished. In bad times as in good, the only two absolute necessities were food and illusions.
~ Dean Koontz
Life is about laughing and living in both good health and also in bad times. Getting through whatever comes our way and by looking back with a smile.
~ Unknown
No. No, Donner's just a kind of human banister." "A what?" "I mean he's like … like a symbol of the past for us to hold on to as we're pushed into the future. He's nothing. No substance. But having him there, the latest in a two-and-a-half-century-long line of American Presidents make people feel that the country, the culture that they grew up with is still here—that we'll get through these bad times and back to normal.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I mean he's like … like a symbol of the past for us to hold on to as we're pushed into the future. He's nothing. No substance. But having him there, the latest in a two-and-a-half-century-long line of American Presidents make people feel that the country, the culture that they grew up with is still here—that we'll get through these bad times and back to normal.
~ Octavia E. Butler