Quotes About Times

The design of 'Love Actually, ' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.

IN TIMES OF VIOLENCE, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like a bad dream suddenly, evisceratingly real

What strange times are these," says Tara as they wend their way through the dead to safety, "when Muslims must fear other Muslims.

Fortresses may or may not be useful according to the times; if they do good in one way, they do harm in another.

Those river boats saw lots of good times, I guess," Nancy remarked. Afterward, the two ate dinner in a river steamer anchored nearby. It was furnished elegantly in nineteenth-century style. "Um! It's delicious," said Julie Anne, biting into a broiled, freshly caught fish topped with buttered almonds.

You have the right to make this determination, even if I don't appreciate it. But at times like this, I almost wish I could relax my standards. If I did, I might console myself with the possibility of using a dull, rusty needle on you someday.

I love the South, don't get me wrong; but it does lag behind the times in social developments.

As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

These are difficult times for educators who believe that learning is worth pursuing for its own sake and that the chief purpose of school is the nurturing of students as whole human beings.

It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart's desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven.

Firm the whole fabric stood, Or seemed to stand, and sound As it had stood before. But nothing backward climbs, And when I looked around As at the former times, There was Life—pale and hoar; And slow it said to me, 'Twice-over cannot be!

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

the idea that an unfavourable influence exerted upon a man's personal life by the times in which he lives may even extend to his physical organism.

In ordinary times, the center always wins. Its power grows with time, and that can't be reversed, not by ordinary means. Decentralizing, back toward anarchism, needs extraordinary times... This War--this incredible War--just for the moment has wiped out the proliferation of little states that's prevailed in Germany for a thousand years. Wiped it clean. Opened it.

Lack of awareness or concern for the context and constraints of the times is only part of the problem of those today assessing such historic figures as Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln - or the American nation as a whole.

it was difficult when times were hard to pretend to be happy, doing the reverse was relatively simple.

This is an aggressive charge," Kendall Coffey said. "And there are times when an aggressive charge gives more incentive for the defendant to seek a plea. The vast majority of cases don't go to trial and end in a plea."

I'm a cliché," he said softly. "What?" "I'm a story everyone's heard a thousand times.

I think I'm kind of getting the concept of closure. It's no big dramatic before-after. It's more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times. - Adam

The underlying idea is none other than that the times preceding the parousia require a unique concentration of the minds of believers upon the Lord and the manner in which they may best please Him.

These new times require new strategies for making faith real in people's lives. Nothing drives home the need for such innovation as attempting to connect (or reconnect) with the de-churched. Their dismissal of Christian churches is not mean-spirited; it simply reflects the firsthand experiences that led them to conclude churches are ill-equipped to support the flourishing life they hope for.

It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.

Awright Al? I asked him. A silly question really. Convention always imposes its lunacy on us at such inappropriate times.