The Times Quotes

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times.

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

My motto is: more good times.

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal offense, not just a civil one. I'm all for the criminalization of discrimination.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.

I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.

I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others.

The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?

Ive been married three times and divorced three times.

Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

To read is to voyage through time.

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.