Quotes About Times

There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis.

I have half a cutlery shop's worth of spoons in my pocket at all times designated for tasting.

There's pressure everywhere. For me, being able to control that, handle that through my family life, handle that with my teammates who support me and I them, I feel that's kind of how you get through those type of pressure times.

I guess nostalgia is our sanctuary in sorry times.

Love hurts. Love stinks. Love bites, love bleeds, love is the drug. The troubadours of our times all agree: They want to know what love is, and they want you to show them. But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.

Lyceum Theatre. The reviewer for the Times noted that the redskins had been "greatly scared at its horror" as they watched the show unfold from their boxes. Henry Irving played Mephistopheles,

For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.

THE COMMON CLOSURE PRINCIPLE Gather into components those classes that change for the same reasons and at the same times. Separate into different components those classes that change at different times and for different reasons.

Policies that change for the same reasons, and at the same times, are at the same level and belong together in the same component. Policies that change for different reasons, or at different times, are at different levels and should be separated into different components.

See into the Spirit of the Times A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable. For this reason we become attracted to certain narratives: it is genetics that determines much of what we do; we are just products of our times; the individual is just a myth; human behavior can be reduced to statistical trends.

I wouldn't have guessed you were a smoker', I said. 'I only ever allow myself one. And then only at times of great stress or great contentment'. 'Which is this?' 'Very funny.

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

It often takes great courage to not let rumors and talk of doom and gloom affect your doubts and fears. But a savvy investor knows that the seemingly worst of times is actually the best of times to make money. When everyone else is too afraid to act, they pull the trigger and are rewarded.

was a new family in the manse. And such a family! Miss Cornelia shook her head over them several times as she walked briskly along.

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

Ay-firmative,' Eve said, and tried for a smile. 'Sorry. An Aliens reference always makes me feel better at times like this. Exept I'm not sure I'm the one who lives through the movie.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil.

My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...

In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; its business today will be to defend passionately human dignity and reserve.