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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid

Time, Wise, Proper

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
Helen Rowland

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
John Bradshaw

Life, Truth, Pain

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Ezra Pound

Art, Someone, Together

As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.
David Wilkerson

Pain, True, Through

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.
Michael J. Fox

Life, Good, God

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.
Marc Andreessen

Good, Strong, Succeed

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald

Time, Best, Whether

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
Alice Walker

Different, Understand, Cannot

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
Christopher Morley

Order, Interested, Pretend

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.
Richard Pryor

Home, Wife, Trying

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirksen

Principles, Flexible, Fixed

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
Elizabeth Edwards

Life, Faith, Family

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery

Future, Used, Trouble

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Martha Graham

Time, Others, Artist

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Jonathan Swift

Tell, Sit, Pants

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Ovid

Others, Born, Praise

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
Ovid

Good, State, Born

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
Marilyn vos Savant

Sunrise, Find, Once

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
Brigitte Bardot

Today, Parents, Grateful

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden

Joy, Possessed, Tail

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Women, Men

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

Godmother, Loads

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert

History, Ignorance, Causes

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
Allen Klein

Through, Tough, Point

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
Dolly Parton

Life, Food, Hard

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
Robert Orben

Humor, Crisis, Fight

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
Tom Hopkins

Trying, Keep, Succeed

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob August Riis

Rock, Two, Before

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
Lady Gaga

Life, Choose, Reborn

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