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Quotes About Times

When you need someone to talk to in difficult times, it's tempting to try to turn a trusted ally into a confidant as well. Not a good idea.
~ Ronald A. Heifetz
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
Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Quauhnahuac was like the times in this respect, wherever you turned the abyss was waiting for you round the corner.
~ Malcolm Lowry
The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.
~ Harold Ramis
The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.
~ Libby Larsen
No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth—...
~ Amitav Ghosh
The Tang went into decline and people became discontented. There was hunger and unrest, and as is common at such times, the troublemakers looked to place the blame on the foreigners.
~ Amitav Ghosh
But this was Saratoga, which I love even during the bad times;
~ Andrew Beyer
In their spiritual history men may have had times of great humbling and brokenness, but what a different thing this is from being clothed with humility, from having an humble spirit, from having that lowliness of mind in which each counts himself the servant of others, and so shows forth the very mind which was also in Jesus Christ. "Stand
~ Andrew Murray
Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.
~ Sandra Dallas
For he who in unsettle times is weak, Adds to the evil, and expands its growth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am but an ordinary Man. The Times alone have destined me to Fame–and even these have not been able to give me, much. . . . Yet some great Events, some cutting Expressions, some mean Hypocrisies, have at Times, thrown this Assemblage of Sloth, Sleep, and littleness into Rage a little like a Lion.
~ John Adams
There are good times in everybody's satchel, nor do we all get a free pass. That would be a split decision, as they call it. How else is the planned brotherhood to float forward?
~ John Ashbery
Instrumental music was only tolerated, on account of the times and of the people. But in gospel times, we must not have recourse to these, unless we wish to destroy the evangelical perfection, and to obscure the meridian light, which we enjoy in Christ our Lord.
~ John Calvin
To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.
~ Aziz Ansari
They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known.
~ Billy Joel
Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.
~ Caitlin Moran
THE MEMBERS DEBATED the executive at length three separate times during the Convention: early June, mid-July, and early September.
~ Edward J. Larson
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
~ Elayne Boosler
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.
~ Elena Ferrante
I'd say most qualifying sessions in the Chase are about the only times I get nervous, because qualifying is so important. A lot of times, when you're fast in practice, you have to live back up to those expectations in actual qualifying.
~ Denny Hamlin
Some coaches and quarterbacks over-analyze things at times. Sometimes it can be pitch and catch, let the play-makers make plays.
~ Amari Cooper