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“I can’t keep count of the times when I have seen how hard times make people much more relationally accessible than they were before their difficulty.”
John Townsend (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thanks for the times That you've given me. The memories are all in my mind. And now that we've come To the end of our rainbow, There's something I must say out loud. You're once, twice Three times a lady.”
Lionel Richie (born 1949) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Three Times a Lady (1978).
“I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times … in a way that's completely consistent with … the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in.”
Elena Kagan (born 1960) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview on C-SPAN (9 December 2010).
“Death a thousand times to the hired Muslim Brothers, Death a thousand times to the Muslim Brothers, the criminal Brothers, the corrupt Brothers.”
Hafez al-Assad (1930–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We emerged victorious in every battle with the enemy at all times and in all places, because we were full of confidence in victory, and maintained an indefatigable fighting and self-sacrificing spirit without losing our composure and hope, even in confrontation with an enemy force, which was dozens of times stronger in number.”
Kim Il-sung (1912–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If no one gambled against the grain in good times, there would be no winners to inspire people in the bad times.”
Aaron Brown (financial author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.”
John Elkann (born 1976) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dinasty calls", The Economist, 05-08-2008
“Iraq is a great nation now, as it has been at times throughout history. Nations generally "go to the top" only once. Iraq, however, has been there many times, before and after Islam. Iraq is the only nation like this in the world. This "gift" was given to the Iraqi people by God. When Iraqi people fall, they rise again.”
Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with FBI Senior Special Agent George L. Piro (7 February 2004); National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 279.
“If the slave-owner of our times has no slave, John, whom he can send to the cesspool, he has five shillings, of which hundreds of such Johns are in such need that the slave-owner of our times may choose any one out of hundreds of Johns and be a benefactor to him by giving him the preference, and allowing him, rather than another, to climb down into the cesspool.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is a dreamer of ancient times, or rather, of the myths of what ancient times used to be. Such men are harmless in themselves, but their queer lack of realism makes them fools for others.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter 4 “The Emperor; in part I, “The General” originally published as “Dead Hand” in Astounding (April 1945)
“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous — Almost, at times, the Fool.”
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The "good old times" — all times when old are good — Are gone.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men, I say, never did believe idle songs, never risked their soul's life on allegories: men in all times, especially in early earnest times, have had an instinct for detecting quacks, for detesting quacks.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not the end. There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. You have failed.”
Neil Gaiman (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know that in an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therfore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer. ...five times as far away make five times as blue.”
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) said by 1519 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most common cause of low prices is pessimism — some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.”
Warren Buffett (born 1930) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1990 Chairman's Letter
“It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id. Everywhere it is machines — real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, machines being driven by other machines, with all the necessary couplings and connections.”
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They didn't correct her [Harris] once and they corrected me. Everything I said, practically, I think 9 times or 11 times. And the audience was absolutely, they went crazy. And the real, I thought, I walked off and I said, 'that was a great debate, I loved it.'”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Regarding the debate audience (which there wasn‘t one), Donald Trump's Debate Crowd Comment Sparks Confusion: 'They Went Crazy', Newsweek (September 19, 2024)
“I’m sure that Ukraine thought they were going to win, you’re going to beat someone that’s 15 times your size ... you don’t go into a war that’s 15 times your size.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump Repeats His Favourite Kremlin Talking Point In Latest Anti-Ukraine Outburst" Yahoo / Huffington Post (August 27, 2025)
“There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.”
P. L. Travers (1899–1996) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From "Personal View," by P. L. Travers, in The Sunday Times (London), issue 8575 (11 December 1988).
“Master, master singer, Master of words unspoken, Seven times was I born, and seven times have I died Since your last hasty visit and our brief welcome. And behold I live again, Remembering a day and a night among the hills, When your tide lifted us up.”
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
Timothy Leary (1920–1996) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview by David Sheff in Rolling Stone Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1987)
“Thomas A. Edison "failed" ten thousand times before he perfected the incandescent electric light bulb. That is--he met with temporary defeat ten thousand times, before his efforts were crowned with success. p. 73”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility. [p. 18]”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Young Asian males are nine times as likely as white youth to belong to a gang and Hispanic youth are 19 times more likely. A disproportionate share of Hispanic young and poor are thus assimilating into a misogynistic, rebellious, youth sub-culture of drugs, gangs, crime, contempt for formal education, and hostility to police.”
Pat Buchanan (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though blacks are outnumbered 5-to-1 in the population by whites, they commit eight times as many crimes against whites as the reverse. By those 2007 numbers, a black male was 40 times as likely to assault a white person as the reverse. If interracial crime is the ugliest manifestation of racism, what does this tell us about where racism really resides — in America?”
Pat Buchanan (born 1938) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Black America’s Real Problem Isn’t White Racism" column as reprinted on official website (July 18, 2013).
“In times like these, it's helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.”
Paul Harvey (1918–2009) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Respectful Treatment : The Human Side of Medical Care (1977) by Martin R. Lipp; also in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 271.
“In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.”
Hillary Clinton (born 1947) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the National Prayer Luncheon, reported in The New Yorker (30 May 1994)
“Whatever the poverty of our knowledge in this respect, it is certain that the question of the sign is itself more or less, or in any event something other, than a sign of the times. To dream of reducing it to a sign of the times is to dream of violence.”
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth. So it has been an honour to serve it. I give my thanks to you, the British people, for the times that I have succeeded, and my apologies to you for the times I have fallen short. But good luck.”
Tony Blair (born 1953) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Full text of Tony Blair's resignation speech", Times Online (10 May 2007).
“I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby, because whatever they are here for, it is not to help build an encyclopedia.”
Jimmy Wales (born 1966) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment about "drama mongers" on the Wikipedia Administrator's noticeboard, (23 November 2007)
“In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And while we recognize that our influence will at times be limited, although we will be wary of efforts to impose democracy through military force, and although we will at times be accused of hypocrisy and inconsistency, we will be engaged in the region for the long haul. For the hard work of forging freedom and democracy is the task of a generation.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks by President Obama in Address to the United Nations General Assembly (24 September 2013)
“Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words, And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then, How I'd love to find we had that kind of choice again.”
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good friends in hard times and hard friends in good times.”
Max Sparber (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many fucking times do I have to go to fucking New York this week? How many fucking times can you fucking graduate from fucking Columbia?”
John McCain (1936–2018) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At a scheduling meeting, upon learning that commencement at Columbia University, where his daughter Meghan was graduating from, lasts several days (2007) Game Change
“But in reason if one man has no right to command all other men--the expedient of despotism--neither has he any right to command even one other man; nor yet have ten men, or a million, the right to command even one other man, for ten times nothing is nothing, and a million times nothing is nothing.”
Isabel Paterson (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.”
Le Corbusier (1887–1965) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When the Cathedrals Were White (1947)
“Its heart that in flight contracted a thousand times a minute, slows until its beat is virtually undetectable. Its body temperature falls dramatically, and its breathing seems to cease altogether. [...] It's hibernating; but for a hummingbird, winter comes 365 times a year.”
David Attenborough (born 1926) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You must do over the same subject ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must appear accidental, even a movement.”
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have always been a laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres… I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laughter to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It (the fetus) is strongly aware of your feelings toward it. At times the personality traits that it had earlier color this perception. It pushes these aside impatiently. It has mental images of its own probable future, and parts of it do become frightened at times, to relinquish old adult powers for an infant's helplessness.”
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you examine your thoughts for five minutes at various times during the day for several times a month, you will indeed receive a correct impression of the kind of life you have arranged for yourself in the next existence. If you are not pleased with what you discover, then you had better begin changing the nature of your thoughts and feelings.”
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Times have changed since the Good Book was written, and you can’t hold with a purely Fundamentalist approach in complex times.”
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is some thing vulnerable about Dorothy, times when she lapses into such a strong dependence that he feels oddly moved. Other times, it just irritates the hell out of him. Perhaps this is the closest he can come to love now, an occasional ambivalent response to being needed.”
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After proving God’s faithfulness for many years, I can testify that times of want have ever been times of spiritual blessing, or have led to them.”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 406).
“We use the word God. God hooks all the other words up. I'm the pope. I'm ten times the pope. I'm fifty times the pope. But I'm the pope in the hills and in the mountains.”
Charles Manson (1934–2017) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview by Penny Daniels (1989)
“I ask myself: are defeats necessary? Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live”
Robert Hunter (1941–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source