Top 100 There Are Times Quotes
#1. There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.
Scott Simon
#2. There are times when you throw an interception and you're beating yourself up.
Tom Brady
#3. There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.
Nelson Shanks
#4. There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
Ezra Taft Benson
#5. Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.
Ned Colletti
#6. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.
Molly Ivins
#7. Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.
Christian Bale
#8. I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
Michael Bloomberg
#9. A thing cannot be delivered enough times:
this is the rule of dogs for whom there are no fool's errands.
To loop out and come back is good all alone.
It's gravy to carry a ball or a bone.
Kay Ryan
#10. Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.
David Levithan
#11. Times Mayor of Abingdon - was, no doubt, a benefactor to his generation, but I hope there are not many of his kind about in this overcrowded nineteenth century.
Jerome K. Jerome
#12. There are times when I myself no longer know whether I said and did the things I report or whether I dreamed them up. Anyway, I always dream true. If I lie a bit now and then it is mainly in the interest of truth.
Henry Miller
#13. There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.
Bengt I. Samuelsson
#14. There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.
Brian May
#15. There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.
Carla H. Krueger
#16. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
Oscar Wilde
#17. Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.
Marion Dudley Cran
#18. There are times where people ask for a lock of your hair, but the truth is I have a lot of gratitude for my fans.
Nolan Gerard Funk
#19. It's hard to describe, but there are times when ... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us!
Tony Snow
#20. There are times when we should, remember, the strange courage, of the second-rate who refuse to quit, when the nights, are black and long and sleepless, and the days are without, end.
Charles Bukowski
#21. What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control
Denzel Washington
#22. Oftentimes, the best negotiations result in a deal that benefits both parties. There are times when you simply want to go for the jugular, but often, you want the other person to feel pleased with the outcome, even if you are the clear victor.
Ivanka Trump
#23. There were bad times before, and you are still here... Living, breathing, feeling the wind on your skin. Let everything go and feel it!
Adam Scythe
#24. You know a lot of times you'll find girls in a club are jaded to the other girls in the club. There's a nasty vibe between the chicks in the club. It's like a pretty girl can't look at another pretty girl and say Wow she's pretty.
Willa Ford
#25. [I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone ... Well, that fact alone is staggering.
Joyce Carol Oates
#26. There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.
Jillian Mayer
#27. There are times when simplicity makes a decision for you.
Karen Hawkins
#28. But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.
Leslie Cockburn
#29. I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.
John Lee Mahin
#30. There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Geraldine Brooks
#31. But listen to me
there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether you're suited for the task at hand or not.
Haruki Murakami
#32. The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.
Malcolm Gladwell
#33. There's an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it's a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us because it's a source of comfort in a world that's so rapidly changing.
John Hagel III
#34. There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
Herman Melville
#35. To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.
Anais Nin
#36. There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.
Noel Perrin
#37. There are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#38. As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.
Rosario Dawson
#39. If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.
Douglas Adams
#41. There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don't carry weight anymore.
Penelope Douglas
#42. There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.
Bobby Schilling
#43. There are also several practical aspects to learning more about
our eternal home. Having a better perspective on the purpose of
our lives helps us to handle difficult times better. It helps us focus
on what is truly important. It also helps us to enjoy this life more
fully.
Vance C. Kessler
#44. My God, there are times when the sexiest thing a woman can give a man is permission.
Jim Butcher
#45. I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.
George Clooney
#46. We don't always come out unbreakable the first time. So we are broken and rebuilt several times, until there is no question that we can stand on our own
Arlene Lagos
#47. I think a lot of times there is a tendency in Washington to make rules because of something that was adverse or fraud or something like that. And we make a lot of rules and end up hurting a lot of innocent people that are trying to start up their companies.
Brad Wenstrup
#48. There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you've got to have fun with it.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#49. It must sound, I know, as if I had no pity for him; it wasn't true. I was angry because I was terrified. But there are times when a curse is more bracing than an endearment.
Jacqueline Carey
#50. Sometimes I float along the river
For its surface I am bound
And there are times stones done fill my pockets
And it's into this river I drown
T.J. Klune
#51. I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
Adam Rapp
#52. Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.
Susan Minot
#53. I am a bit of a goody-goody. Not that there aren't times when I think, I was kind of an (ass) today. I work in a world in which people are really catered to; someone will come up to me and say, "Is it OK if this person's makeup is done before yours for the premiere?"
Jennifer Garner
#54. There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you - not telling you what you should have done or should do, but simply, listening to you
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#55. Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna played his flute for the cows of Vrindavan. There are factory farms in India now.
Sharon Gannon
#56. There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. The closet does have a benefit. It provides safety. Which at times is important. But remember, as long as you are in there, two other things will be too. Fear and shame.
Anthony Venn-Brown
#58. I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.
Shepard Smith
#59. I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting to learn to work in another. At age 76, I really don't have the time to settle down to one medium when there are so many avenues to explore.
Nancy Johnson
#60. There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.
John Searles
#61. I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.
James Nachtwey
#62. There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
Henry James
#63. The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?
John Rocker
#64. There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product.
Paul Reed Smith
#65. Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study ... I have asked each and every one of you a
thousand times not to do that ...
Look now, you've spilt vodka on a paper ... and there are crumbs ... and gherkins ...
It's disgusting!
Anton Chekhov
#66. Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.
Calvin Coolidge
#67. The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
David Levithan
#68. Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
William Gibson
#69. You know, there are times when you play a song over and over and over and you get a little tired of it and you let it sit for a while. It's like, you may love eating sushi, but if you eat it every single day, you're going to get a little tired of it.
Les Claypool
#70. I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but I've been to Africa a bunch of times and it's just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful.
Kris Allen
#71. There are times when we RISE up to situations and recognise our INNER POWER,STRENTHS and CAPABILITY by the way we handled a siutation ! How about recognising ourselves,our POWER. our TALENT, our CAPABILITIES and then handle each situation from our BEST levels. The RESULTS are bound to be UP'd!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#72. There are times we need to tell ourselves, "Good job!" when we know that is true.
Charles R. Swindoll
#73. I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.
Patty Griffin
#74. At core, no matter how kindly may be your thoughts of the human race, there are times when all you want to do is crumple it up and either set fire to it, or use it to pad the floor of a bird cage.
Big bird cage.
Really big bird.
Harlan Ellison
#75. There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.
Robert Breault
#76. If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
Nancy Kress
#77. But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. There're times when strangers are like family, and family are like strangers
Hlovate
#79. Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.
Ken Scott
#80. My husband Terry and I are mostly monogamous ... There are times - certain set and limited circumstances - when it is permissible for us to have sex with others.
Dan Savage
#81. There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.
Paul Hoffman
#82. There are times when words are extra, like raindrops on drenched grass. There are times for holding. He held her ...
Bud Macfarlane Jr.
#83. I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.
John Sexton
#84. There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
Aeschylus
#85. Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.
Dyan Cannon
#86. I wonder at times if we're not all blind. It just seems there are an abundance of books unread, paint strokes not admired, and performances unattended. So much attention painstakingly sought and not given.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#87. I can't speak. There are too many negatives. Too many questions...And all the things these hard times have taken from me. All the things I've had to give up.
Except, perhaps, my dreams.
Katherine Longshore
#88. There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ...
Peter De Vries
#89. I want my teammates to see that I'm following Christ. But, I'm also human, so there are times I slip and make mistakes but I know Christ forgives me.
Torii Hunter
#90. There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
Queen Latifah
#91. There are always exquisite things and times to remind us of the original source of all beauty and love.
Jay Woodman
#92. There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.
George Eads
#93. There are times when a data set is so robust that if you set up your analysis right, you don't need to ask it questions--it just tells you everything anyway.
Christian Rudder
#94. I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.
Alex Pareene
#95. I was all, "Oh, dog, Countess gonna crack open a forty of whup-ass on you now. Oh, you in the sh*t now, wigga!" (I am not incline to use hip-hop vernacular often, but there are times when, like French, it just better expresses the sentiment of the moment.) -Abby
Christopher Moore
#96. There are times I almost think I am not sure of what I absolutely know. Very often find confusion in conclusion I concluded long ago. In my head are many facts that, as a student, I have studied to procure. In my head are many facts of which I wish I was more certain I was sure.
Richard Rogers
#97. There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place ... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
Kajol
#98. It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#99. If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available.
Chris Cannon
#100. Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
Barry Took
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