History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Gerald R. Ford

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.
Abigail Van Buren

We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.
Maurice Strong

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.
Patton Oswalt

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
Bell Hooks

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
Margaret J. Wheatley

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Lord Acton

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
Friedrich August von Hayek

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
Allen Iverson

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
Abdul Kalam

Tears at times have the weight of speech.
Ovid

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

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

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

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.
Ovid

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
Christina Aguilera

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
Cleopatra