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“These will be really testing times but really interesting times because I think it is going to change everything. Actually, probably, in some small way, everything in football had to change anyway.”
Leeann Dempster (born 1970) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Easter Road chief executive stresses need for ‘calm heads and clear thinking’,8 April 2020
“Everyone who has achieved something, there have been times when they did not know if they could do it, and there were definitely times when people told them they could not do it,”
Pamela Thomas-Graham (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Adaptability is really important — the style and the way that you do things has to change according to the environment. There are times where you step up and lead, but there are equally times where you can lead in a more informal manner.”
Daisy Veerasingham (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A key element of Daisy Veerasingham's leadership style, as quoted from the Business Insider on becoming the first woman, the first person of colour, and the first non-American to be the president and CEO of Associated P…
“Remember that good times and bad times will be part of your life equally, and you have to learn to handle both with equanimity. Make the most of life's opportunities and learn from every opportunity, and challenge that life brings along”
Chanda Kochhar (born 1961) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When Chanda Kochhar spoke about importance of honesty in letter to daughter,22 July 2025
“The scar on my arm may have affected my mental and physical health, but it will never define me. There were times when I couldn’t bear the stares or questions about my scar, times when my confidence hit rock bottom. I couldn’t even wear T-shirts, but I refused to let it hold me back”
Senzo Radebe (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cleo's motto seemed to be: Life's tough and that's okay, because life is also fantastic. Love it, live it - but don't be fooled into thinking it's not harsh sometimes. Those who've survived periods of bleakness are often better at savoring good times and wise enough to understand that good times are actually great.”
Helen Brown (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As for the relationship between faith and morality, I believe that in order to establish a proper coexistence among human beings, reason is capable of establishing a morality (see Kant) independently of faith, which, as our times and past times demonstrate, contributes more to hostility and ferocity among human beings than to their peaceful coexistence.”
Umberto Galimberti (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Inteviewer: You are always ironic... Vanoni: Humour alleviates fear. We need to play, because we are living in tragic times. I feel exhausted and saddened after reading the newspapers and listening to the news. It seems that human beings cannot help but wage war. This is the zeitgeist: the spirit of the times is war. Then we also have Donald Trump, so we're in a bad way...”
Ornella Vanoni (1934–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Protect your mind and your space in these times. Too much content, too much information, not all is necessary. Pray your psychological discernment. Life may be hard but there have been simpler times.”
Ric Hassani (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is going to impose a lot of burden of logistics on INEC, the parties and the candidates. The cost of electioneering and logistics for participation will quintuple; it will go up by as much as sextuple – about five to six times, maybe 10 times. This amendment to make everyone to run the direct primary…down the throat of everyone is an injurious one.”
Solomon Bob (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is difficult to summarize it. There have been lots of bad times. But lots of good times as well.”
“The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace, and it conspires against it in times of adversity. It's more despotic than monarchy. It's more insolent than autocracy. It's more selfish than bureaucracy. ... Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow.”
Abraham Lincoln (attributed) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fake Lincoln Quotes" in Thomas DiLorenzo, Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe (Crown Publishing Group: 2009), p. 31
“When people cannot see how decisions are made - or how money is spent, or whether justice is being done - resentment grows. In good times, it simmers; in hard times, it explodes. Transparency diffuses that pressure. It gives power back to citizens and deprives populists of the darkness in which they thrive.”
Heather Brooke (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You're bound to meet a lot of stumbling blocks, and you’re bound to fail at certain things, but the number of times you fail is not the issue, it is the number of times you pick yourself up, dust yourself and continue your journey.”
Bolanle Austen-Peters (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient _ordine retrogrado_, by a computation backward from ourselves.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Everyone has Good and Bad Times. Find your creative/thinking time. Defend it ruthlessly, spend it alone, maybe at home. Find your dead time. Schedule meetings, phone calls, and mundane stuff during it.”
Randy Pausch (1960–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two or three times in my life I discovered love. Each time it seemed to solve everything. Each time it solved a great many things but not everything. Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and thoroughly, solved everything.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were so many times I thought, "I'll have the album finished this year, definitely, we'll get it out this year." Then there were a couple of years where I thought, "I'm never gonna do this." If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.”
“We're all alone on the stage tonight. We've been told; we're not afraid of you. We know all our lines so well, ah-ha, We've said them so many times: Time and time again, Line and line again.”
“From time to time, you will hear our opponents declare that the union is weak, that the union has no support, that the union has not grown fast enough. Our obituary has been written many times. How ironic it is that the same forces that argue so passionately that the union is not influential are the same forces that continue to fight us so hard.”
Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now in addition to being applauded as a five-time Grammy-Award-winning artist, Gloria now has the distinction of being titled a two-time New York Times best-selling author!”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: comment by Frank Amadeo, president of EEI, after Estefan's second children's book, "Noelle's Treasure Tale," debuted in third position on The New York Times children's picture book best seller list for the week of Octob…
“In my world, the wrong-er somethin' feels, the right-er it is. So, to waste this much time on something this stupid is-- that's-- that felt good to me. [...] It's the exact opposite of what we do here at the Times, which is: we spend appropriate amounts of time on deserving subjects. So, I'm the exact opposite of that: inappropriate and undeserving subjects.”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The main instinct a lot of the time is to masquerade and hide the truth at all times. Whereas in reality what happens in songs is laying bare the truth. So a lot of time it's fighting that instinct, and the songs become almost confessional. They can also be quite condescending to myself, almost like I'm putting myself down.”
Pete Doherty (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the evolutionist is going to say that we have 140 million years since the time of the dinosaurs, that is enough time for the earth to erode away ten times.”
Kent Hovind (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don't like her. My mother don't like her. She's a dog and I'm a fat, ugly man. Well, all I know is I had a good time last night. I'm gonna have a good time tonight. If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees and I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me.”
Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The late Indira Gandhi always used to warn about the dangers that the country was facing. She used to keep saying that the country was going through a very dangerous time. This danger is now many times more than what it was at that time. We should all be cautious now.”
Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In his address to the party workers on 12 November 1984 to spoil the machinations of terrorist, when he was elected to the post of the President of the Congress party. Quoted by Meena Agrawal in “Rajiv Gandhi” P.74
“15 Proposition. The 42. moneths, a thousand two hundred and three score propheticall daies, three greate daies and a halfe, and a time, times, and a halfe a time mentioned in Daniel, & in the Revelation, are all one date.”
John Napier (1550–1617) said by 1617 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“16 Proposition. The 42. moneths, 1260 propheticall daies, three great daies and a halfe: And a time, times and halfe a time, signifieth everie one of them, 1260 Julliane yeares.”
John Napier (1550–1617) said by 1617 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You wish things were different from the way they are. That’s a refrain as old as time. I’ve lived a long and strange sort of life, Kanu, and I’ve known that feeling a few times. Generally it’s best to accept that things are exactly as bad as they look. At least that way you know it’s time to start digging your way out.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every one of us has already experienced thousands of last times without even realizing it. Most of the time, in fact, you never even imagine that what you're experiencing is the last time.”
Fausto Brizzi (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thank you for our time together. You have been more than a coach to me and I will cherish the many good times we spent together on and off the court. While we have come to the conclusion together that we ought not to move forward, please know I am very grateful for all you have taught me and fond of our time shared.”
Emma Raducanu (born 2002) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Raducanu splits with coach after Australian Open exit", BBC (29 January 2026)
“The old woman sang of a time gone ahead, and of those already walking ahead of her on the pathways. Her eyes were reddened as though they bled. And her songs, like the pathways, were interweavings of times and places and of all that breathed between earth and sky. And the pathways and the songs went into a time beyond the thumbing down of the eyelids. (The Stories, chapter 28 p180)”
Patricia Grace (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An audience can go back and watch a film any number of times they want. It's always there for them. For the cast and crew, the relationship with a film is more complex. The magic is in the making, and that process is a discrete unit of time in the past. You can reflect on that unit of time, you can be proud of it, but you can't revisit it.”
Tom Felton (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Times were both wonderful and terrible. You were fighting all the time, you were really thinking the country was going to have a fantastic revolution and that things were going to change for the poor. You were utopic, and so very deeply into that, that you didn’t have much time to look deeper into your psyche, or your culture.”
Claribel Alegría (1924–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The strength of my faith had, however, varied from time to time, particularly when my family experienced bereavement. There were times when I would ask; God, where were you when this happened?”
Rhoda Kalema (1929–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At that time, we were always fighting and had many issues that we couldn't resolve, maybe it happened so we could have time. We also learned a lot during the times we weren't together,”
Jennylyn Mercado (born 1987) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jennylyn Mercado turns emotional recalling love story with Dennis Trillo, GMA Integrated News 14 February 2025.
“This is the fourth time in a row that I’ve won, and I’ve been blessed that the last two times it came down to who was going to win the final,This time there were three of us. It was so intense! For the fans it was amazing.”
Dawn Harper-Nelson (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Marat Today they need you because you are going to suffer for them They need you and they honour the urn which holds your ashes Tomorrow they will come back and smash that urn and they will ask Marat who was Marat”
Peter Weiss (1916–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.”
Billy Collins (born 1941) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tuesday, June 4th, 1991", sts. 14-15, in Poetry (July 1992) p. 215, and in The Art of Drowning (U of Pittsburgh P, 1995) p. 28
“Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!”
Park Benjamin Sr. (1809–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live under a different system. Today, the people will follow wherever I lead. All the politicians including the once mighty Mr. Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging.”
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924–1988) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking to an Iranian Newspaper in September 1977, as quoted in Pakistan, a Dream Gone Sour (1997) by Roedad Khan.
“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow.”
Nahum Tate (1652–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I traveled, talking about these issues, I met so many young people who had lost hope. Some were depressed; some were apathetic; some were angry and violent. And when I talked to them, they all more or less felt this way because we had compromised their future and the world of tomorrow was not going to sustain their great-grandchildren.”
Jane Goodall (1934–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Feelings are constantly changing. None is dependable for long. You can love someone intensely today, and tomorrow or next month not feel a thing. Except perhaps for the feeling of doubt or depression that what was so beautiful could change so quickly.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If in your own experience you haven't yet learned the truth of the deception of feelings, then you just have to go on believing and thinking, having faith in the past and hope in the future, being happy today and unhappy tomorrow, but never being in command of your own life for long.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All I can say is we are not promised tomorrow, I know that, you know that. So we gonna make every moment last and just blessed it and appreciate it. (form her speech at Rock in Rio, 2006)”
“Israel has extended its hand in peace from the moment it was established... In Israel our hope for peace never wanes. Our scientists, doctors, and innovators apply their genius to improve the world of tomorrow. Our artists, our writers, enrich the heritage of humanity. Now, I know that this is not exactly the image of Israel that is often portrayed...”
Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the U.N. General Assembly (23 September 2011).
“Ask yourself what “problem” you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.”
Akio Morita (1921–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government. We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.”
Lucy Parsons (1851–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source