Perilous Times Quotes

• Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Peace, Home, Heart

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• I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

  John Grierson

  Two, Important, Opinion

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Time, Cities

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• We learn from history that we do not learn from history

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Wisdom, Time, Thinking

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• When you love life, life will love you back.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Positive, Attitude, Short Life

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• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

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• It's no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times. Anyone can be a Republican when the stock market is up, but when stocks are selling for no more than they're worth, I tell you, being a Republican - it's a sacrifice.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Sacrifice, Laughing

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

  David McCullough

  History, Who We Are, Way

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 13, 2012

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• This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

  Jon Voight

  Country, Strong, America

  "Voight: My Concerns for America". www.washingtontimes.com. July 28, 2008.

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• Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

  Carly Fiorina

  Leader, Justified, Flattering

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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