Quotes About Times

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency.

I really despise the pathos of being found asleep at odd times in odd places.

MVLL: Los libros cambian con los tiempos. Con la evolución de la vida cotidiana, los libros se ven desde otra perspectiva y pueden llegar a cambiar de una manera muy profunda

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.

One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.

The worst of times in San Francisco was still better than the best of times anywhere else.

The worst of times in San Francisco was still better than the best of times anywhere else. There

Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe

At the best of times I don't have the kind of voice anyone would want to hear mangling their favorite songs.

We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.

My knowledge of Las Vegas is fairly limited. In fact, it basically consists of watching Ocean's Eleven about a thousand times.

Que otros se lamenten de que los tiempos son malos; yo me quejo de su mediocridad, puesto que ya no se tienen pasiones. ...Por eso mi alma se vuelve siempre al Viejo Testamento y a Shakespeare. Aquí se siente en todo caso la impresión de que son hombres los que hablan, aquí se odia y se ama de veras, se mata al enemigo, y se maldice a su descendencia por todas las generaciones; aquí se peca.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.

God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live within the boundaries these times

God reveals more or less of his glory in different times and settings. But it is always his glory! It is never minor. Never insignificant. Never negligible. It is always some measure of the infinite excellence. It is always worthy of seeing and knowing and loving.

Sadly, though, America's role appears to come to an abrupt end before the final years of the end times.

The Biblical prophecy and the Muslim prediction each forecasting that the final end times leader will change the laws and the times, is telling. Muslims have their Hijra calendar, based on the career of Muhammad, which has twelve purely lunar months with Friday being its sacred day of prayer and a day for sermons at the mosque. Muslims believe that the Hijra calendar is mandatory for all to observe.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven. He replied, "When evening comes, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,' and in the morning, 'Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times." (Matthew 16:1-3)

I stand on 42nd Street and Broadway looking at the sign flashing the news from Times Tower like a scoreboard: The World is losing.

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

Our ignorance of history makes us slander our own times, wrote Gustave Flaubert.

Persecution and reproach await all who are imbued with the Spirit of Christ. The character of the persecution changes with the times, but the principle—the spirit that underlies it—is the same that has slain the chosen of the Lord ever since the days of Abel.—The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 575, 576.

The tempo of our times is such that our opinions are not keyed to history but to headlines.