Times Like These Quotes

• We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday — the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn.

  Laurence Binyon

  Yesterday, Race, Inspire

  Lecture on opening a new library at Sutton High School on September 24, 1938. "Books As Source Of Inner Strength", The Times, p. 19, September 26, 1938.

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• In times like these, we need each other. We must bond together in spirit and in service.

  Michael Jackson

  Together, Needs, Spirit

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• In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

  Paul Harvey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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• Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

  Jewel

  Worry, Useless, Idleness

  Song: Hands, Album: Joy: A Holiday Collection

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• It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

  Harper Lee

  Dad, War, Father

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

  Jewel

  Worry, Would Be, Useless

  Song: Hands

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• All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Character, Doe, Prove

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• I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.

  Jon Foreman

  Eye, Light, Hands

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• And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

  Arundhati Roy

  Air, Bigs, Unsaid

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.142, Penguin Books India

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• If I could tell the world just one thing
  It would be that we're all OK
  And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
  And useless in times like these
  I won't be made useless
  I won't be idle with despair
  I will gather myself around my faith
  For light does the darkness most fear
  
  My hands are small, I know
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  And I am never broken

  Jewel

  Love, Light, Hands

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• During times like these, the wise are influential.

  Joni Mitchell

  Wise, Politics, Influential

  Malka Marom, Joni Mitchell (2014). “Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now”, p.249, Omnibus Press

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• I believe God loves the world through us - through you and through me. We use Mother Teresa's name; it is only a name, but we are real co-workers and carriers of His love. Today God loves the world through us. Especially in times like these when people are trying to make God "was," it is you and I, by our love, by the purity of our lives, by our compassion, who prove to the world that God "is."

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Real, Believe

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• Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Public Service, Entertainers

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• The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes.

  Michael Moore

  Strong, Freedom, Clothes

  Michael Moore (2004). “Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!”

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• You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?

  Robert Graves

  Mean, People, Suffering

  Robert Graves (1982). “Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina: The Troublesome Reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (born 10 B.C., Died A.D. 54), as Described by Himself, Also His Murder at the Hands of the Notorious Agrippina (mother of the Emperor Nero) and His Subsequent Deification, as Described by Others”

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• I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Grandmother, Months

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• When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the painting says, indeed what the artist is shrieking at the top of his voice, is that life has become empty of all rational content and coherence, and that, in times like these, is far from a meaningless statement.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Voice, Doubt

  Lewis Mumford (2000). “Art and Technics”, p.21, Columbia University Press

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• When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often the dream becomes troubling; sometimes it even turns into a nightmare. At times like these, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story. Who would you be without it? How much of your world is made up of unexamined stories? You'll never know until you inquire.

  Byron Katie

  Dream, Stories, World

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• But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

  Mark Twain

  Cheer, Spring, Blessed

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1181, Delphi Classics

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

  Will Rogers

  Men, President, Looks

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Loss, Government, Office

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.44, Modern Library

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• I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, War, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not running the bases.’” “Well, you could at least steal second.’” “Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you’ve gone and ruined it.

  Rachel Caine

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made, then for the first time the use of self-defense techniques should be considered. Even at times like these, do not show any intention of attacking, but first let the attacker become careless. At that time attack him concentrating one's whole strength in one blow to a vital point and in the moment of surprise, escape and seek shelter and help.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Blow, Self, Technique

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• It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite!

  Noel Gallagher

  Trying, Modest, Hard

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