Rough Times Quotes - Page 3

• Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Catching On, Sharks, Frying Pans

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Reality, Impact

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm a big researcher. I love libraries and archives and I have a huge National Geographiccollection. I have a good amount of books and records, and I'm on the Internet. I think research yields a lot and can help you pull different discordant works that may not be harmonious. Through time and with patience and focus, you bring them all together.

  Xaviera Simmons

  Book, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's stable subatomic particles - protons, neutrons, electrons - and then there's unstable ones that decay into stable ones. One will become many. There's this constant process of transformation that underlies everything in the entire universe. They also make these beautiful marks through time. It's like the universe was drawing, essentially, at this fundamental level. There's always an alphabet that's based in natural patterns. Sometimes they're just by themselves, sometimes they build up these other things that relate to the conception, that are more at our level of existence.

  Kysa Johnson

  Beautiful, Transformation, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mom and my real father divorced before I was one. My mom and my stepfather divorced when I was in high school. Then she fell in love with a guy, and the guy died. That was a rough time. She has handled adversity well. That's where I got my work ethic. So my mother's where I got my love of music, but my father's where I got my athletic ability. And my hair loss. And my love of women.

  Kenny Chesney

  Mom, Mother, Real

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• I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.

  Hayden Panettiere

  School, College, People

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• We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Childhood, Gone, Grew

  Source: www.npr.org

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• That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in any way. Painting and art is a way of holding onto things and making things go on through time.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Art, Forever, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that, like most of us, I was born with an innate goodness. And I believe that God has seen that in me and has protected me through times when I should have died so I could fulfill my potential and do his work.

  Jane Fonda

  Believe, Thinking, Goodness

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• At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Moving, Eye, Space

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

  Eve Ensler

  People, Feel Good, Needs

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

  Terry Pratchett

  No Money, Ingenuity

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Inspiration, Past, People

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• THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

  Jacque Fresco

  Guy, Academia, Earth

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• Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

  David Toop

  Ocean, Echoes, Order

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• Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Eternity, Doorstep

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.63, Ignatius Press

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• A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

  Walter Scott

  Heart, Humble, Character

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• I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.

  Jennifer Egan

  Love, Song, Teenage

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. Jul 1, 2010.

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• Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Wise, War

  Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (including His Translation of Homer). To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson”, p.233

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• Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

  Phyllis Bottome

  Mean, Fighting, Expression

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Rushing, Causality

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.154, Zondervan

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• Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

  Joe Bradley

  Moving, Painting, Tense

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

  Aldous Huxley

  Years, Space, Tourists

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.

  Stanley Spencer

  Men, Wish, Rats

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• Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.

  Dan Simmons

  Book, Ideas, Shadow

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