Quotes About The Times We Live In

#1. Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

Honore De Balzac

#2. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which finally passed in the Senate late last year, is a throwback to the 1990s, when ENDA was first introduced; the bill wasn't updated to the times we live in. It exempts businesses owned by religious groups.

Michelangelo Signorile

#3. The times we live in often dictate the type of entertainment we seek
and we're starting to slide once more into a very dark and scary corner of American life.

Chuck Wendig

#4. I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention the times we live in. They have nothing to do with nothing.

Daron Malakian

#5. In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.

Jim Lee

#6. We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

Tobsha Learner

#7. The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives - and millions may die there.

Johann Hari

#8. Does it not seem to you at times, when
Twilight walks through the house , that
Right here alongside us is another element,
In which we live quite differently?

("A Candle Is Brought In")

Innokenty Annensky

#9. We live in times where the speed of our life is increasing but leading us nowhere.

Apoorve Dubey

#10. God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us.

Robert Jeffress

#11. I knew that not all lives are equal, that the time we live in affects the person we are, more than I had ever thought. Some have a harder chance. Some get no chance at all. With great sadness, I saw so many people born in the wrong time to be happy.

Andrew Sean Greer

#12. I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.

Frederick Lenz

#14. We live in bad times. People do harm to those they don't understand. There is nothing worse than a closed mind and the blind trust that you are the only person to be right.

Leora Cika Waldman

#15. I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.

Anne Waldman

#16. We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic difficulties, with worry and concern over many matters. Our refuge, our peace, our well-being lie in walking in the way of the Lord.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#17. Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?

Thomas S. Monson

#18. Walking in darkness didn't mean having to become one with it, did it? Could we not live with our inner natures without embracing the true evil we all are privy to? Humans are no less evil than the worst of vampires at times. Surely right and wrong couldn't be so perfectly cut and dried.

Trina M. Lee

#19. We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.

Peter Diamandis

#20. I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.

Francesca Annis

#21. The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

Harold S. Kushner

#22. All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live.

T.D. Jakes

#23. We live in an era now where every episode is reviewed 80 different times on the Internet by periodicals you've never even heard of.

Christopher Lloyd

#24. So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key."

(Already Gone)

Eagles

#25. In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

Vera Farmiga

#26. It is necessary to point out that we live in times in which extremity is simply the last remaining form of sanity in an increasingly mad world.

Chilton Williamson

#27. When we live with a lack of anxiety about the future, even in those tightrope kind of times, we communicate the truth that our God is indeed worthy of our trust.

Matt Chandler

#28. There are times on Earth when extraordinary consciousness invades everyday life. There are times on Earth when unseen forces make a calamity of the status quo. There are times on Earth when it seems as though a divine arsonist has set fire to the world as we know it.
- We live in such times.

Jacob Nordby

#29. We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

David Elliott

#30. I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#31. I don't think we get exempt from the pain because we live good lives. Some circumstances we can't control - in fact, most are truly beyond our abilities. Instead maybe it's how we get made new; it's one of the only times we slow down enough to listen and receive grace, real grace.

Katherine Reay

#32. We live in a society that likes to kick people when they're down. Don't be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.

Joel Osteen

#33. I have no problem with the security ... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

Aaron Brown

#34. I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

Javier Bardem

#35. We have all had times ... when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there ... [I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

Oswald Chambers

#36. I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

Kate Clinton

#37. We live in a world that's very fast, where we get bombarded with huge amounts of information very quickly, and I have tried to tailor my voice to the times, which I think, writers, over the course of history - many have always done.

James Frey

#38. A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.

Djimon Hounsou

#39. From my experience and observing a lot of other people that often times that only happens - a transformational experience or shedding of the skin - happens when we are at the end of our road and there is pain involved. We have to change or we continue to live in that almost intolerable pain.

Ray McKinnon

#40. A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#41. Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.

Peggy O'Mara

#42. It is essential to realise, that, while we make efforts to live the Christian life today, the world which have formed in our spoiled times, demands soul, both in the everyday life and in the religion, and can be called totalitarian.

Seraphim Rose

#43. Self-criticism is a way of life in North Korea. Everybody has to do it, even the highest party members. Our sessions were once a week on Monday mornings. All through the week, we were supposed to keep a diary, where we wrote about the times we failed to live up to Kim Il-sung's teachings.

Charles Robert Jenkins

#44. The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.

Nate Berkus

#45. What strange times we live in, when good must disguise itself in the tawdry rags of evil!

Amin Maalouf

#46. If the future's looking dark,
We're the ones who have to shine.
If there's no one in control,
We're the ones who draw the line.
Though we live in trying times,
We're the ones who have to try.
And we know that time has wings,
So we're the ones who have to fly.

Neil Peart

#47. From the Book of Mormon, we learn how disciples of Christ live in times of war.

Ezra Taft Benson

#48. We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.

David Mamet

#49. We're about one hundred times richer than the poorest billion people in the world, and we can do several hundred times more to help them than we can to help others in the rich countries we live in.

William MacAskill

#50. These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

Libba Bray

#51. At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#52. I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

Sherry Turkle

#53. We live in weird times in which we are compelled to behave as if we are free, so that the unsayable is not our freedom but the very fact of our servitude.

Slavoj Zizek

#54. The compartmentalization of His voice to set times we commune with Him is a dangerous place to live. Is it our goal to spend the slightest amount of time possible with the Lord and still be in relationship with Him?

Eric Samuel Timm

#55. A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.

Matt Smith

#56. A lot of people regret, because we live in a society that reveres being at the prime of life and everything, but you have certain primes at certain times, and mine happens to be ...

Clint Eastwood

#57. It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

Harold Macmillan

#58. The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

Carl Sagan

#59. ... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough times, we've certainly been through them before; but good things happen everyday. Great things. We just have to open our eyes and see them.

Christene Houston

#60. Let it be uppermost in your minds, now and at all times, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God who came into the world to lay down his life that we might live. That is the truth, and is fundamental. Upon that our faith is built.

Joseph Fielding Smith

#61. We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

Daley Thompson

#62. Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool

Plato

#63. We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

L. Neil Smith

#64. He gave me a timid smile. "The trouble is," he said, "that nobody paints our times. Nobody paints the age we live in." I murmured something about Benton, and John Steuart Curry. "No," he said, "we'll never find out what the age is like, by peering in a landscape." I

Robert Nathan

#65. How many millions of times the sentence 'Life is short' has been repeated in the human history? But nevertheless we all live as if we have millions of years! Oh, how silly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#66. We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.

Jeff Corwin

#67. We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected to governmental office or taken on a leadership role in their communities. They are now in the position to make a difference.

Paul Stookey

#68. The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live.

David A. Bednar

#69. It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about that.

Romesh Gunesekera

#70. First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thought, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash.

Natalie Goldberg

#71. A new world is coming ... The paradise that man lost will be regained ... One day we will live in a brand-new world.

Billy Graham

#72. Blessed be God, that we live in these latter times - the latter times of the reign of darkness and imposture. Great is our privilege, precious our opportunity, to cooperate with the Saviour in the blessed work of enlarging and establishing his kingdom throughout the world.

Adoniram Judson

#73. We don't get to pick the age we will live in, and we don't get to choose all the struggles we will face. Faithfulness is ours to choose; the shape of faithfulness is God to determine.

Kevin DeYoung

#74. I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

Michael Leunig

#75. It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

John Legend

#76. Many times it happens we live our life in chains and we never even know we have the key.

Eagles

#77. But we don't live in a perfect world, Knight." "I do, certain times a day, those bein' when I walk over that threshold," he stated, jerking his chin toward the front door.

Kristen Ashley

#78. We live in fortunate times in which we have only the irritant of terrorism instead of world wars to worry about

Edward N. Luttwak

#79. We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Martin O'Malley