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Quotes About Times

Serious times require strong leadership.
~ Jeb Bush
I've made tough calls and tough times and been held accountability. I think that is the kind of leadership that the American people need now to produce results.
~ Carly Fiorina
The purpose of life is to glorify God in both good and hard times alike.
~ T. B. Joshua
Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.
~ Jeffrey Lewis
when times are bad, administrators, closer to the locus of decision-making and with more power, protect their jobs disproportionately
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
The president instructed the White House counsel to "correct" the Times story. This was different from the president's previous actions. This wasn't mere venting. Now Trump was asking a subordinate to create a false record about the subject of a pending grand jury investigation.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
The Times had announced that seven thousand pounds had been raised to send a party of Englishwomen to the Crimea as nurses. That, Lib had thought, with dread but also a sense of daring, I believe I could do that. She'd lost so much already, she was reckless. All
~ Emma Donoghue
The others ignored him, busy doing what men generally do in dangerous times: putting on their trousers.
~ Eoin Colfer
desperate times required judicious risk-taking.
~ Eoin Colfer
in modern times nationalism is the most copious and durable source of mass enthusiasm
~ Eric Hoffer
I loved Aphrodite from the first and steeped myself in her legends. My mother told me that in ancient times her rituals were bloody and cruel, but I only half believed it.
~ Erica Jong
What strange times we live in, when good must disguise itself in the tawdry rags of evil!
~ Amin Maalouf
Tragedy, in our times, is politics.
~ Andre Malraux
I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.
~ Oscar Pistorius
It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in - that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
~ Bam Margera
These are strange times. I'm 37 and this is the weirdest the world's ever felt. There's a right-wing, nationalistic anger sweeping through Europe and America.
~ Russell Howard
Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Mother's Day is a welcome event in partisan times. Nearly everyone agrees that we should show mothers gratitude.
~ John Dickerson
I feel like I am very welcome at TIFF and I think it's because I'm Canadian and I've been there a bunch of times.
~ Emily Hampshire
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
~ Terry Pratchett
Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
~ Baha'u'llah
It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears.
~ Howard Jacobson
The global movement of displaced people, many of whom end up in detention without hope, is one of the most pressing issues of our times.
~ Katharine Viner
My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
~ Ted Shackelford