Times But Quotes

#1. I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book.

Michael W. Smith

#2. When they identify relativism, the belief that there is no absolute truth to guide human behavior, as one of the evils of our times; but you won't find absolute truth if you look for it where it cannot be found: in doctrines, ideologies, sets of rules, or stories.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. I know, Ezra, that I tend to be a bit impulsive at times, but it all seems so reasonable at the time I do these things, and so unreasonable when everyone looks back at what happened and what I did

L.A. Meyer

#4. Elena: I guess a dying woman can be stupid if she wants. I'm crazy about you, Archangel. You scare the shit out of me at times, but I want to dance with you anyway.

Nalini Singh

#5. Great entrepreneurs are never out of the game for long. They slip many times, but they don't fall.

Ryan Holiday

#6. It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.

Morgan Freeman

#7. So I guess I wonder, where is the line separating me into this culture or that culture, saying I have less or more? I'm just me, and like most people, I've had my heart broken a few times, but for the most part I have been Happy.

Eowyn Ivey

#8. When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.

Louis Jourdan

#9. My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

Jill Tweedie

#10. A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs

#11. A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

Fred Allen

#12. The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.

Paul Henderson

#13. 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

#14. You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.

Jodie Foster

#15. Shit," she muttered. She'd heard the word from her guard many times, but only now did she understand the real use of profanity. That one word said exactly what she was feeling, said it better than a hundred other words could have done.

Erika Johansen

#16. She might get lonely at times. But that was to be expected. The only way to stop those feelings was to live a life devoted to others. That was her true purpose in life. She was a mere background character in other people's lives.

Lily George

#17. I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

Vivien Leigh

#18. I don't know what's going on that I'm hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it's an honor and a privilege that I'm the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good.

Julie Chen

#19. A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.

RuPaul

#20. Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

Gabourey Sidibe

#21. There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light

Lou Reed

#22. At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.

Mike Tyson

#23. The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.

Buck Brannaman

#24. In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite - shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on.

Eric Kandel

#25. Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.

Phyllis Chesler

#26. I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Douglas MacArthur

#27. Flowers were blooming, withered soon.. Rains kept falling, wasn't forever.. Dogs were barking, just for sometime.. Sun, moon & stars were invisible at times, but they kept watching you.. Let them shine for you, before it's too late..

Heshan Udunuwara

#28. He liked the way his laughter sounded with theirs. It was a sound he had never heard before: not mingled laughter - he had heard that lots of times - but mingled laughter of which his own was a part.

Stephen King

#29. I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

Linus Torvalds

#30. I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

Michelle Shocked

#31. Not the confidence that we know exactly what to do at all times but the confidence that, together, we will figure it out.

Ed Catmull

#32. He'd never called her. Wanted to. A hundred times. But every time he thought about it, his mind boiled up with every reason not to do it, every doubt he'd ever had about himself.

Ari Berk

#33. The rooftops of Ankh-Morpork sprouted a fine array of gargoyles even in normal times, but now they were alive with as ghastly an array of faces as ever were seen outside a woodcut about the evils of gin-drinking among the non-woodcut-buying classes.

Terry Pratchett

#34. I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

Charles Bukowski

#35. Life can be tough at times, but each time you fall, is another lesson to learn from.

Auliq Ice

#36. For some reason my father saw no problem with us pplaying "barbie and ken go to hawaii to save their marriage by picking up another couple for sexy good times," but if barbie and ken had gone to hawaii to "rescue another couple from a crazed kidnapper," that would have been wrong.

Michele Jaffe

#37. I really liked one girl and asked her out 22 times, but she always said no. Finally I sang to her, and she said she'd go out with me.

Liam Payne

#38. Nobody likes hard times, but it's the unpleasant experiences that are often the catalysts to build the character required for our destiny.

T.D. Jakes

#39. Laurelyn can be difficult to read at times, but she's hurting and I want to give her the support she deserves. She damn sure doesn't get it from anyone else in her life.

Georgia Cates

#40. When you're dying, even your unhappiest memories can induce a sort of fondness, as if delight is not confined to the good times, but is woven through your days like a skein of gold thread.

Cory Taylor

#41. I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#42. If she'd been the slightest bit more patient, she wouldn't have called her future husband a moron. Oh, he was at times, but it was kinder to let him think she didn't know.

Lexi Blake

#43. I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.

Howard Fast

#44. I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

Imelda Staunton

#45. I like the pleasant things most women enjoy, even if I do wear breeches and boots on an expedition, even sleep in them at times ... but I powder my nose before going on deck, no matter how rough the sea is.

Louise Boyd

#46. The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

Alia Shawkat

#47. I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Helen Keller

#48. I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it.

Matt Ridley

#49. God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but to prove ourselves men.

Patrick Suskind

#50. I was lonely at times, but not alone.

Camille Pagan

#51. You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

Don Nelson

#52. People live through heartbreak, and you are strong enough to live through it many times. But Julian is not someone who can just touch your heart. He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having you heart break and you soul shatter.

Cassandra Clare

#53. One doesn't want fashion to look ridiculous, silly, or out of step with the times - but you do want designers that make you think, that make you look at fashion differently. That's how fashion changes. If it doesn't change, it's not looking forward. And that's important to me.

Anna Wintour

#54. A man of purpose may fall many times, but the knowledge of his purpose will be the reason he gets up every time.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#55. I love everyone that supports me, and things can get wild at times, but my parents raised me to be grounded and to always remain humble. I think that's one of the main reasons that my fans support me.

Lance Gross

#56. We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

Jim Pattison

#57. Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.

Sevyn Streeter

#58. I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.

Boo Weekley

#59. I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.

Jack McDevitt

#60. I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.

Rory McIlroy

#61. A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

David Burtka

#62. People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.

Julie Burchill

#63. The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

Carine Roitfeld

#64. That verse many times, but it never had any effect

Norman Vincent Peale

#65. Finally, I will forever be grateful to W. Mark Felt. It was a tug-of-war at times, but he came through, providing the kind of guidance, information and understanding that were essential to the Watergate story.

Bob Woodward

#66. Forget about love. You will receive that many times, but none of it is lasting.

Amy Tan

#67. You were never easy, darling difficult sulky you, never diplomatic. You might even have been easy to dislike at times. But no one, absolutely no one, would dare tell me you were hard to love.

Fredrik Backman

#68. This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.

Harry Reid

#69. I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.

Christopher Koch

#70. My beautiful sister. You are like sunshine: bright, incandescent, and oddly irritating at times. But what else are sisters for?

Darynda Jones

#71. Jonas was at her side. She didn't know why he'd risked his life for her so many times, but she was forever indebted to him.

Jen Meyers

#72. I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#73. I have served Almighty God as best as I can. I have failed at times, but "Perfection is the palace in which God alone lives.

Saladin Ahmed

#74. You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

Justin Timberlake

#75. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

Eminem

#76. Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That's right. I fucked Jack Black. Okay, we went out only two or three times, but that's a relationship in my book. And by the way, this is my book.

Kathy Griffin

#77. As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

Will Oldham

#78. My bottom belly was gone! I'd contemplated having that thing sucked out many times, but if you've ever had a face-lift and a brow lift and felt the pain of that, it makes you pause before doing anything else too invasive.

Adena Halpern

#79. My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Natan Sharansky

#80. I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.

Tom Cruise

#81. I was drowning that times, but when I saw those eyes of yours, my body learned how to swim.

Kent Ian N. Cny

#82. She had considered throwing them out a dozen times but in the end always backed away from the idea, as if some unknown charm would be broken by the act. And

Stephen King

#83. A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

John Burroughs

#84. I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.

David Chase

#85. I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.

Chuck Palahniuk

#86. OPPORTUNITIES TO build friendship and community don't always come at the most convenient times, but we have to grab them when we get the chance.

Shauna Niequist

#87. Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

P.G. Wodehouse

#88. Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow.

Geoff Thompson

#89. Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

Elizabeth Janeway

#90. I understand that you believe that it works,' said Thrower patiently. 'But everything in the world is either science or miracles. Miracles came from God in the ancient times, but those times are over. Today if we wish to change the world, it isn't magic but science that will give us our tools.

Orson Scott Card

#91. We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.

Nick Vujicic

#92. Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

Alexander McCall Smith

#93. The most beautiful country in the world, the bloke said a few times, but I knew that lots of people tell themselves things like that but there is no country that is the most beautiful country.

Catherine Lacey

#94. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

Samuel Johnson

#95. I'll mess up sometimes. I'll cry for no reason, burn food because I'm lost in another world while reading, snap at you because I'm having a bad day, and be completely irrational at times, but I'll love you, always. You make me so happy, so needed.

Melody Anne

#96. People are always doing that in movies, staring out of windows to signify their hardships. I've tried a few times, but it was pretty boring.

Rachel Bertsche

#97. Beer's for the good times. But ain't nothing like a big ass bowl of ice cream with all the trimmings to chase the blues away for me.

Elizabeth Reyes

#98. There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught the rain and the snow. We would be okay, the two of us together. We would be okay.

Carolyn Parkhurst

#99. I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.

Steve Yzerman

#100. In the past, we used to discriminate on the basis of skin color and gender (and still do at times), but now with elective abortion, we discriminate on the basis of size, level of development, location, and degree of dependency. We've simply swapped one form of bigotry for another.

Scott Klusendorf