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Quotes About Times

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
There are social deficiencies apt to strike the spirit of young men attending the university and which do strike them, but what is the official admonition? "You students should not concern yourselves with politics. You must attend to your studies and after you have formed yourselves, then go into the world," Yes. That is quite so, but education today does not form an intelligence capable of visualizing the epoch and the problems of the times in which they live.
~ Maria Montessori
I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.
~ Joely Richardson
We all possess the power of true happiness... it's for us to be brave and search deep. Find the one thing that keeps you sane, I guarantee you it will pull you through your darkest times.
~ Unknown
And there will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and at all times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is God, over us all, for he is the author of this law, its promulgator and its enforcing judge. Whoever is disobedient is fleeing from himself and denying his human nature, and by reason of this very fact he will suffer the worst punishment."16 For
~ Mark R. Levin
My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.
~ Eric Stoltz
The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.
~ Maximilian Kolbe
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
From antiquity to modern times, virtually every society that has been organized as a state has condemned the consumption of human flesh more forcefully than it has condemned the consumption of any other kind of animal food.
~ Marvin Harris
Yes, she's electric and yes, she's a monster at times.
~ Mary Jo Bang
Happy Christmas!' the man said. 'Yes', Charles Dickens said, who couldn't bring himself to say 'Happy Christmas' back. 'Isn't it the best of times?' the man went on. The cat gave a gentle miaow of disagreement in his arms as Charles Dickens nodded. 'Yes. And the worst.
~ Matt Haig
The times of the gospel are the last times, the gospel revelation is the last we are to expect from God.
~ Matthew Henry
On 4 January 1875 he filed his first Times despatch, with the dateline: 'Under the Old Tree of Aryah, Tropical Africa'.
~ Max Hastings
The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.
~ Max Planck
Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
~ Michael Burgess
Fear is a memory of better times. Fear is a dream.
~ Unknown
The times change, but the nature of men does not. Such men ... will not find our new age more favorable, and they will tell us that their evils are only necessities of the times. But they will linger in the house of the Devil, savor his vintage, and acquire a taste for it.
~ Unknown
Ernest Ransom: These are not the best if times...as your editorials remind us A.A. Hayes : Why not get a Democrat back in there? Ernest Ransom: These are not the worst of times eithers Dingley Falls
~ Unknown
The base coins of Northumbrian times became pennies rich in silver, coins which manage to muddle together the Viking sword, the hammer of the god Thor and some inspirational Christian messages.
~ Unknown
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
In times of revolution there is not a man who does not feel himself capable of anything.He seizes the moment. He starts with a great vigour, but how often are his actions foolhardy or ill-considered...and how often are they unscrupulous ?
~ Unknown
Esa frialdad cruel con que los hombres pagan la mayoría de las veces las manifestaciones demasiado ardientes de un amor puro.
~ Moliere