Rough Times Quotes - Page 4

• I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Stars, Sunset

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• I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calk, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and be riven. ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event.

  Harold Brodkey

  Liars, Writing, Thinking

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• Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Song, Style

  "Neil Young pays tribute to country music". www.today.com. August 27, 2005.

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• We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Together, Remarkable, Can Do

  "Fictional character: Tim". "About Time", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong.
  In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain;
  more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.

  Carole Bouquet

  Strong, Pain, Loss

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• My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

  Shirley Knight

  Careers, Acting, Rough

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• You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.

  Rachel Kushner

  Waiting, Use, Arrivals

  Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Naps, Way

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• We must remember that much spiritual growth does not occur suddenly but rather through time and experience. The encouraging message of the gospel is that God does not often require us to perform sensational or extraordinary deeds but rather to try to do better today than we did yesterday. He is mindful of our desires, our determination, and our direction as well as of our deeds.

  Brent L. Top

  Spiritual, Determination, Yesterday

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• History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Queens, Humility, Humanity

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• Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

  Robert McKee

  Writing, Reason, Nurture

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• Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical conservatism. Change in the manner Darwin expected is just not found in the fossil record.

  Niles Eldredge

  Fossils, Lineage, Records

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• It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

  Questlove

  Giving Up, Mean, Persistence

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• I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.

  Questlove

  Real, Moving, Thinking

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• Love is not a matter of getting connected. It is a matter of seeing that we already ARE connected within an intricate web of relationships that extends throughout all life. It is a realization of 'no boundary' -- that we are all made of the same stuff, riding through time on the same spaceship, faced with the same problems in the world, the same hopes and fears. It is a connection at the core, that makes irrelevant skin color, age, sex, looks or money.

  Anodea Judith

  Sex, Love Is, Skin Color

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• Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to see things in a static way, and so you see what is. Even in looking at ourselves, what we really are is essentially vessels for our DNA that keeps evolving through time. So seeing that and embracing that reality, and thinking of everything as kind of this perpetual motion machine in which you embrace reality - you don't wish it was different. You realize that it's your puzzle to interact with. You interact with it well, you evolve yourself.

  Ray Dalio

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter's perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems. A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Pain, Book, Islamic

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• Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

  Dick Francis

  Character, Journey, Wells

  Dick Francis (1986). “A jockey's life: the biography of Lester Piggott”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Faith, Essentials, World

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• Jeb Bush gave a speech yesterday. He had a pretty rough time. He accidentally said that ISIS has 200,000 men instead of 20,000, and then he mispronounced the name of the terrorist group Boko Haram. So if history has taught us anything, Jeb is well on his way to winning the White House.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Winning, Men, Isis

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• You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

  Ken Burns

  Essentials, Needs, Way

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• Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.

  Robert McKee

  Philosophical, Mean, Wish

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• I was just sort of moving through time.

  Patty Duke

  Moving, Mental Illness, Illness

  Patty Duke, Kenneth Turan (1988). “Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke”, Bantam

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• I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

  Anthony Braxton

  Kind, I Have Learned

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