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“Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control...”
Cole Porter (1891–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In life, there are times to be quiet, and there are times to shut the fuck up. This is one of those times.”
Spike Lee (born 1957) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: School Daze (1988), character of Grady.
“The way you have ups is the same way you have downs,It's balanced. It's life. It's what makes life sweet. You enjoy and appreciate the good times, and you also appreciate the bad times too because it ushers in the good times and it teaches you how to appreciate [them].”
“There were times that were up and down, but I think all through it the sense of what it meant to be a priest and to be called to be a priest was something that kind of grew in fits and starts in different ways. There were times when I was thinking, "Well, maybe I should just leave." There were other times I was pretty certain that this was a call from the Lord.”
Francis Joseph Kane (born 1942) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop Kane: ‘I’ve never regretted becoming a priest’ (5 September 2018) Chicago Catholic
“Countries that have more freedom are 12 times richer than those that are repressed. The lowest percentile in free countries is better off than 90% of the population in repressed countries. Poverty is 25 times lower and extreme poverty is 50 times lower. And citizens in free countries live 25% longer than citizens in repressed countries.”
Javier Milei (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you ask me why I’m successful, I’d say that’s because I stay away from negative people. These people can pull you down and inject negativity into you. Good times and bad times are part of one’s life, but if you have negative people around you, bad times will never end.”
Dev (Bengali actor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is, I have been told, one of the most formidable of Chinese imprecations to wish that your enemy lived "in interesting times." We live in very interesting times; times not to be made better by any simple formula. Understanding each other is not enough, but it is an indispensable beginning.”
Denis William Brogan (1900–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Interviewer: “Fabio, how many times?” Fognini: How many times what? Interviewer: “How many times have you smashed your racket on the ground?” Fognini: Never enough.”
Fabio Fognini (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Computer Science has often at times been assumed to be a male dominated field and often at times an assumption is made that there is a man behind the scene helping you achieve set goals. This proves to be a challenge because at times I have to keep on justifying myself.Eunice on challenges women face in STEM”
Allela Denise Eunice wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...she's not a sentimental writer. There are times when she's as referential as a nun. At times she leaps into a comic, clownish dance. And times when she thunders like an Old Testament prophet.”
Bub Bridger (1924–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I smashed my knee more times that I could even count, I fell so many times and got hurt so many times, but you get used to it.”
Brianna Rollins-McNeal (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is permanent. Tomorrow the caravan moves on. The wheels turn. The flowers bloom and die. The good we do in bad times is a seed planted for others to harvest. Evil is a dark hole in creation, where good may once have flourished, where it may take root again one starlit night, when the wounded world murmurs in a healing sleep.”
Morris West (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Viewed properly in the context of their times, the last forty-four presidents all pursued policies that they believed would make for a better America tomorrow.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time is change, transformation, evolution. Time is eternal sprouting, blossoming, the eternal tomorrow.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. Alle Verk, xiii. 9.
“Time keeps running away no matter what's left behind, it keeps on moving Tomorrow is not today and all of your yesterdays are only a matter of time.”
“If I take things slowly today in order to appreciate life better, and if I take time to listen to the messages that life sends me, then I will have less time to do the things I need to do today. Then tomorrow I will have to do everything that much faster and I will be that much more unable to appreciate life. It is dangerous to stop and smell the roses.”
John S. Hall (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The promise in her smile shames the mountains tall She can bring the sun to shining. She can tell the rain to fall.It's been a long time, Mama, since I heard you call my name,Ah, been a long time since I heard you call my nameI got to see my Colorado girl againBe there tomorrow, Mama, don't you cry”
Townes Van Zandt (1944–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Christ came back tomorrow, He'd have to change planes in Frankfurt. Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The heaviest burden of all is the presence of the war and the increasing superficiality. It gives me incessantly the impression of a bloody carnival.. .I am now like the whores, I once painted [in his Berlin-time]: the merest brushstroke now, gone tomorrow. Nonetheless I am still trying to put my thoughts in order and, from all the confusion, create an image of time, which is my task, after all.”
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a letter from the sanatorium in Köningstein, Taunus, to Gustav Schiefler, 12 November 1916; as quoted in War, art and crisis: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1914 – 1918, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 2003, p. 28
“There's a place for us, Somewhere a place for us Peace and quiet and open air wait for us, Somewhere. There's a time for us, Some day a time for us Time together with time to spare, time to look, time to care, Someday. Somewhere we'll find a new way of living. We'll find a way of forgiving, Somewhere.'”
Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lyrics to "Somewhere" in West Side Story (1957 play; 1961 film)
“A key ingredient in authentic Christianity is time. Not leftover time, not throwaway time, but quality time. Time for contemplation, meditation and reflection. Unhurried, uninterrupted time.”
Bill Hybels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's going to take some time this time To get myself in shape. I really fell out of line this time, I really missed the gate. The birds on the telephone line, (next time) Are cryin' out to me, (next time) And I won't be so blind next time And I'll find some harmony.”
Carole King (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We stand by the window embracing, and people look up from the street: it is time they knew! It is time the stone made an effort to flower, time unrest had a beating heart. It is time it were time.It is time.”
Paul Celan (1920–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Corona" In: Paul Celan, Pierre Joris (2005). Paul Celan: Selections. p. 44
“While Babylon represents the principality in bondage to death in time—and time is actually a form of that bondage—Jerusalem means the emancipation of human life in a society from the rule of death and breaks through time, transcends time, anticipates within time the abolition of time.”
William Stringfellow (1928–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time and again we stretched out our hands, and time and again we were rejected. Time and again we went to war; time and again we killed and were killed. Time and again we left our homes, offices, universities, and orchards for the battlefields. Time and again we discovered that beyond even the greatest victories, only crises and losses lurked.”
Ezer Weizman (1924–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since we parted, yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer, One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,—thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love Fancies", in The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith, Vol. I (London: Chapman & Hall, 1867), p. 111.
“Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.”
Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're going forward with research on a new Orient Express that could, by the end of the decade, take off from Dulles Airport, accelerate up to 25 times the speed of sound, attaining low Earth orbit or flying to Tokyo within two hours.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) said by 1774 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Day after day gasped away, slowly seep hours when fettered or immured, only at times does imagination scale the palisades that the spirit of chaos and confusion, the spirit of reactionary bombast, has set up around us - dreams, dreams of endless, destructive hate! Mists of hate, beclouding the burning brain!”
George Grosz (1893–1959) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Otto Schmalhausen, 4 April, 1917 (Briefe, p. 49); as quoted in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County M…
“So before we end and then begin We'll drink a toast to how it's been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say I've loved these days.”
Billy Joel (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a child, I'd wonder, 'When I die, will people still remember me 1,000 years later?' And without the gold medal … Well, the Olympics are the ultimate achievement in my sport. At times I think, 'Why should I push myself all those long hours in the rink?' But then I think, 'How will I ever know how good I could have been?' I want to be the Michael Jordan of my sport.”
Michelle Kwan (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A girl said this to me last night: "You aren't at all what I expected. I thought you would be more suave and debonair." That statement by itself isn't all that funny, until you put it into context: She said it to me as we were laying in bed, having just fucked three times. That was two hours after I met her.”
Tucker Max (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life — life — let there be life! Better a thousand times the roaring hours When wave and wind, Like the Arch-Murderer in flight From the Avenger at his heel, Storm through the desolate fastnesses And wild waste places of the world!”
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were times when I wished I had been 'prenticed to a different trade. I was putting in seven hours a day on it. It was an odd life I was always hoping that the end of one thriller would not overtake me before I had finished the other.”
Margery Allingham (1904–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've had a chance to live underwater 10 times now in various underwater laboratories and to use more than 30 different kinds of submarines, thousands of hours seeing the ocean from the inside out and realizing this is not just rocks and water; this is alive. It's a soup, like minestrone, but all the little pieces are alive.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Turbulent times taught me a lot about life. I learned that some of life’s brightest moments come in the darkest hours. I learned to never lose hope.”
Mamokgethi Phakeng (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If your worldview tells you that it's bad for women to become mothers but liberating for them to work 90 hours a week in a cubicle at the New York Times or Goldman Sachs, you've been had.”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet (June 26, 2022), as cited in "From Yale to Newsmax, Usha Vance Has Helped J.D. Vance Chart His Path", The New York Times (November 1, 2022)
“We put in some long hours at times, and I had three children at home. But they were very responsible, and I had family and friends who helped look after them.”
Katherine Johnson (1918–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The period between 30 May 2024 and the early hours of Sunday, 30th June 2024 felt like South Africa was teleported to what the infamous British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) described as ‘living in most interesting times’.”
Khumbudzo Ntshavheni first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni: The Presidency Budget Vote 2024/25. Government Communication and Information System, 24 July 2024.
“No more stress, now I'm straight Now I get it, now I take time to think Before I make mistakes just for my family's sake part of me left yesterday The heart of me is strong today No regrets I'm blessed to say that old me dead and gone away”
“Speech is an acoustic reality, writing a visual one. Performance of the former has been perfected through a million years of natural selection in the evolutionary process. The latter is a trick which we began to learn only yesterday (in terms of evolutionary time). To "hear" language (and to "say" it) is programmed in our genes; to "see" it (and "read" it) is not.”
Eric A. Havelock (1903–1988) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet" in Sino-Platonic Papers, 5 (December 1987)
“Today I saw a red-and-yellow sunset and thought, "How insignificant I am!" Of course, I thought that yesterday, too, and it rained. I was overcome with self-loathing and contemplated suicide again - this time by inhaling next to an insurance salesman.”
Woody Allen (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good afternoon. Yesterday, December the 13th, at around 8:30 p.m. Baghdad time, United States military forces captured Saddam Hussein alive. He was found near a farmhouse outside the city of Tikrit, in a swift raid conducted without casualties. And now the former dictator of Iraq will face the justice he denied to millions.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, I received your letter yesterday (About the time the door knob broke) When you asked how I was doing Was that some kind of joke? All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, they're quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now I can't read too good Don't send me no more letters no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row”
“We have risen to the highest and at the same time the most difficult stage of our historic struggle. Our enemy at the present moment and in the present period is not the same one that faced us yesterday.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New Times and Old Mistakes in a New Guise",(August, 1921)
“Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't please all the people all the time. And yesterday, all those people were at my show.”
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Natural, reckless, correct skill; Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity The universe has dark and light, entrust oneself to change One time, shade the eyes and gaze afar at the road of heaven.”
Ikkyū (1394–1481) said by 1481 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Ikkyū and The Crazy Cloud Anthology : A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan (1986) by Sonja Arntzen.
“Rollers on the beach, wind in the pines, the slow flapping of herons across sand dunes, drown out the hectic rhythms of city and suburb, time tables and schedules. One falls under their spell, relaxes, stretches out prone. One becomes, in fact, like the element on which one lies, flattened by the sea; bare, open, empty as the beach, erased by today’s tides of all yesterday’s scribblings.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source