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Quotes About Times

How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul,shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?
~ Carolyn Turgeon
Lord Acton stated this elegantly: "History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of environment and the pressure of the air we breathe. It requires
~ Carter Lindberg
None of us wants trouble, but I fear these are troubled times,
~ George R.R. Martin
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
~ George W. Bush
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
~ Gustave Flaubert
For I was not, as I liked to think, the indulgent pleasure-loving opposite of the cold rigid Colonel. I was the lie that Empire tells itself when times are easy, he the truth that Empire tells when harsh winds blow.
~ J.M. Coetzee
A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.
~ J.M. Coetzee
By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.
~ Harrison Salisbury
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
~ Phil Ochs
President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.
~ Thomas Sowell
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
~ Gertrude Stein
In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.
~ Robin Sacredfire
There are truths that are true only in a certain line, in a certain direction, under certain circumstances, and for certain times - those that are founded on the institutions of the times.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Has everyone gone mad?" "Everyone was mad already, my lady," Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. "It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.
~ Tad Williams
Ay de nosotros! ¡Hemos llegado a conocer unos tiempos en que hasta la vista de nuestros propios soldados nos causa temor.
~ Taylor Caldwell
And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.
~ Juan Goytisolo
Jaipur is the hometown of my religious guruji. It has a special place in my heart, and I have been here several times.
~ Govinda
The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.
~ Daniel Okrent
How do you spell the name of the Irish prime minister? It sounds like 'teeshuck', but we spell it 'taoiseach.' We respect foreign spellings these days - a sign of our more egalitarian times, perhaps.
~ David Crystal
In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.
~ Thomas Paine
We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.
~ Benedetto Croce
Although they could have also used the occasion as a teaching moment—a mind-blowing lesson on comparative risk. But that works only if people are open to learning. In modern times, many of us don't satisfy that criterion, perhaps because, according to the nineteenth-century British essayist Walter Bagehot,18
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson