During These Unprecedented Times Quotes

In times of unprecedented evil, God wants to give unprecedented grace. For, as St. Paul wrote, "Where sin abounds grace abounds all the more" (Rom 5:20). ~ Michael Gaitley

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times. ~ Bernard Baruch

That was all people could really do for one another, he supposed. Take care of each other during the bad times -- and there would always be bad times -- and make each other happy during the good. ~ Alyssa Cole

Where one might break, two can stand tall. Where one might fold, two can hold firm. From here until the end of your days on earth, you will have someone to support you during times of weakness, comfort you during times of grief, encourage you during times of fear, and celebrate with you during times of joy. That is a gift, one that should never be abused or taken for granted. Cherish each other as God cherishes you, and you will both know peace. ~ S.C. Stephens

Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times. ~ Ben Bernanke

If they stay away during your hard times, they should also stay away during your great times. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

We live in a time of unprecedented abundance. ~ David Wolfe

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition. ~ Orrin Woodward

Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena - homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth. ~ Hannah Arendt

Unprecedented amnesty in history of Georgia took place ~ Vano Merabishvili

An astute trader aims to enter the market during quiet times and take profits during wild times. That, of course, is the total opposite of how amateurs act: they jump in or out when prices begin to run, but grow bored and not interested when prices are sleepy. ~ Anonymous

you learn ten times more in a crisis than during normal times. ~ Geoff Colvin

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested. ~ Mike Honda

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer. ~ Mark Batterson

THE COMMON THREAD will help keep you on track during challenging times, during the pursuit of your hopes, dreams & goals ~ Jerry Gladstone

We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy. ~ Art Garfunkel

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. ~ Al Gore

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. ~ Hannah Arendt

Experience everything;
Times of sorrow, times of Joy.
Times of darkness, times of light.
Times of lost heart, times of hope.
Times of hate, times of love.
Times of pain , times of peace.
Times of distress, times of dancing.
Times of sickness, times of recover of strength.
Times of lost, times of finding the way.
Times of wandering, times of wonder.
Times of failure, times of success.
Times of fall, times of rise.
Time of sowing, times of harvesting.
Times of injury , times of healing.
Times of waiting, times of fulfilled wish.
Times of praying, times of receiving the promise.
Times of ploughing, times of planting.
Times of dreaming, times of working to achieve the dream.
Times of doubt, times of Faith. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions ~ Jerry Mander

During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve. ~ Robyn Davidson

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more? ~ Yuri Gagarin

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled. ~ Thomas Woods

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure. ~ Paul Theroux

The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle. ~ Shawn Achor

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema. ~ Werner Herzog

Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future. ~ Richard Branson

MY LIFE IS LIKE A MOVIE; IF YOU WALK OUT DURING THE BAD/BORING/DULL TIMES, YOU MIGHT JUST MISS THE GOOD/EXCITING/HAPPY TIMES ~ Delisa Ansah

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out. ~ Peter Drucker

In my experience, people who don't stick around during the hard times weren't worth having around anyway. ~ Kimberly Belle

Who you truly are as a person is best revealed by who you are during times of conflict and crisis. ~ Karen Salmansohn

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk

A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you're wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs. ~ Debasish Mridha

During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe ... members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times
during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as during a one-on-one audience with the Pope
that they privately christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.' ~ Mark Hertsgaard

Cartoons in newspapers have proven to be an effective means of rallying support during times of war, often by the simple device of depicting the enemy as subhuman or even monstrous - much as they did during the Reformation. ~ Thomas Conley

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. ~ Vladimir Putin

Social scientists estimate that about 70 percent of our happiness stems from our relationships, both quantity and quality, with friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors. During life's difficult patches, camaraderie blunts our misery; during the good times, it boosts our happiness. ~ Eric Weiner

The international community ... allows nearly 3 billion people almost half of all humanity to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth. ~ Kofi Annan

Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy. ~ George W. Bush

The time when freedom is no longer held in the highest regard is not during times of want or suffering, but during the era of civility, pleasure, and wealth. ~ Eric J. Martindale

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times, ~ Thabo Mbeki

Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing us with a bountiful supply of food, with great industrial plants, with high-speed transportation, and with military weapons of unprecedented power, they threaten our very survival. ~ Barry Commoner

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. ~ Mickey Mantle

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration. ~ Mitch Daniels

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures. ~ Saint Augustine

During times like these, the wise are influential. ~ Joni Mitchell

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage. ~ Katharine Graham

Having the ability to recognize and appreciate your blessing during difficult times in life is a blessing. ~ Angel Moreira

If sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual. ~ Randall Jarrell

The unprecedented development of science and technology ... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today. ~ Robert Platt

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit more for a barroom than a presidential debate stage. ~ Chris Hayes

During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles. ~ Fabien Cousteau

Laos is saddled with the distinction of one superlative: it is the most heavily bombed country on earth. During the nine-year secret war against the Communists, during the Vietnam War, the U. S. dropped 6,300,000 tons of bombs on Indochina, about 1/3 of which fell on Laos. It was the heaviest aerial bombardment in the history of warfare. During the 1960s and 1970s, the U.S. rained more bombs on Laos than were dropped on Nazi Germany during World War II -- three times the tonnage dropped during the Korean War -- the equivalent of a plane load of bombs every 8 minutes around the clock for 9 years. ~ Sy Montgomery

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts. ~ Anton Chekhov

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison] ~ James A. Baldwin

... Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird. ~ Jasper Fforde

The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time. ~ Adam LaVorgna

Humans fall hard in love so easily, so many times during their lives. It makes it hard to tell who's your soul mate and who's just another rest stop during your journey to your one true love. ~ A. Abriyana

It is an indication of Chelski's warped finances that even successive titles can be regarded as failure. Spend unprecedented sums and only unprecedented success can be commensurate. Chelski won't get the credit they think they deserve because of the money they've spent. There's £300m worth of difference between a victory and an achievement. ~ Pete Gill

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed. ~ Bob Riley

You should always change at least three times a day during Fashion Week. ~ Selita Ebanks

Praying the Lord's Prayer forces us to look for things to thank and praise God for in our dark times, and it presses us to repent and seek forgiveness during times of prosperity and success. It disciplines ~ Timothy Keller

Of these, only the last, the crime against humanity, was new and unprecedented. Aggressive warfare is at least as old as recorded history, and while it has been denounced as "criminal" many times before, it has never been recognized as such in any formal sense. ~ Hannah Arendt

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly. ~ Alexander Haig

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.
Ten times a day must thou overcome thyself: that causeth wholesome weariness, and is poppy to the soul.
Ten times must thou reconcile again with thyself; for overcoming is bitterness, and badly sleep the unreconciled.
Ten truths must thou find during the day; otherwise wilt thou seek truth during the night, and thy soul will have been hungry. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When you think about the real cost of so-called cheap energy that has driven our prosperity to unprecedented levels, for some of us, to our horror, we've realized that this has the potential for burning brightly and then snuffing out. ~ Sylvia Earle

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell

An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, "I will hasten my work in its time" (D&C 88:73). ~ Russell M. Nelson

Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented. ~ Stacy Schiff

2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift. ~ George Scratchley Brown

I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple. ~ Keith Briffa

Don't underestimate your own strength. To persevere. To make it through the most difficult of times. And, JUST as importantly, don't underestimate your ability to help someone ELSE during THEIR most difficult times. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word, or gesture, to help someone make it through their day. ~ Jared Padalecki

These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan. ~ Gerard Arpey

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times. ~ Will Rogers

We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change. ~ Justin Rosenstein

Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the redefinition of civil marriage, introducing not only an unprecedented novelty into our state law, but also institutionalizing an objectively sinful reality. ~ Thomas J. Paprocki

And there's only two times I like to sweat, on the football field or during sex. ~ Mercy Celeste

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament. ~ John Buchanan Robinson

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. ~ Herman Kahn

Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times. ~ Mark Z. Danielewski

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. ~ Karl Liebknecht

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power. ~ Thomas Sowell

Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg. ~ Martin Caidin

It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise. ~ Dennis Ross

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times. ~ Jack Gantos

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble
times when I have seen people tempted to deny God
when he says, The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

always believed in who I am even during the times I struggled to believe myself. ~ Amy Engel

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. ~ Bono

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, it [horror movie] just seems a little ridiculous. ~ Rob Zombie

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits. ~ Susan Sontag

It is during the bad times that the skilled manager lays firm foundations for future growth." - Ratan Tata ~ Suresh Lulla

The month of April 2000 will provide an unprecedented showcase for the clean energy options available to individuals, businesses and the government, .. As tens of millions of people take action to support clean energy during Earth Month, the 'New Energy for a New Era' campaign will catapult us toward a clean and affordable energy future. ~ Gaylord Nelson

New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people. ~ Patti Smith

If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. ~ Howard Thurman

It was more when things slowed down, during the parts when you were supposed to have fun, that my lack of friends felt obvious- on Saturday nights, when there dances I didn't go to, and during visitation... I spent those times hiding. Most of the other girls propped open their doors for visitation, but we kept ours shut. ~ Curtis Sittenfeld