Top 1200 Million Times Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

There are times in my life when I've wanted never to exist. There's times you don't want to go back to.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.

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

We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves. We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.

there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.

I've always said manage in good times so that you're ready for the bad times.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

I know perfectly well that in football, you have good times, and you have bad times.

Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural. Whether it's a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.

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

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

I'm a perfectionist, which is bad at times but very good at other times.

seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll

I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends and family, the people who will put up with you. Discover what it means to be close to your work, to be intimate with a subject. Measure the difference between that and working with someone you don't know as much about. Of course there are many good photographs that have nothing to do with staying close to home, and I guess what I'm really saying is that you should take pictures of something that has meaning for you

I want the Times to give tough reviews. That's partially why I read the Times.

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

Well, at the end of our movie Fireproof, we released a book that my brother Stephen and I wrote called The Love Dare. It was for couples. That book had a much larger impact than we expected. As a matter of fact, if I could use the term "overwhelmed," we were. The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller and sold over five-million copies and is now in 28 different countries and languages. So, we were blessed and just surprised at how well that did.

We're in the Chicago suburbs, ruling our 'hood and the streets that lead here. It's a street war, where other suburban gangs fight us for territory. Three blocks away are mansions and million-dollar houses. Right here, in the real world, the street war rages on. The people in the million-dollar houses don't even realize a battle is about to begin less than a half mile from their backyards.

If some institution wants to sell you a billion dollars worth of mortgages, they might have to sell 100 million in the market, and then you'll buy the other 900 million on the same terms. Now, the very fact that this has been authorized or will be authorized, I hope, will firm up the market to some degree. And that's fine. But you don't want to have artificial prices being paid.

No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.

I train five times a week, usually three-four times with my personal trainer.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous

I think everybody goes through times where they're vulnerable and then times where you're confident and cocky.

The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.

Best friends make good times better and hard times easier!

I try to practice mindfulness at all times, including the times where I'm nervous and I'm stressed.

Television is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.

There are times I do single wicket bowling, and there are times I try, practise, hitting a specific length.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

I used to be very hard on myself at times - a lot of times, really.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.

In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

More and more details coming out now about spoiled rich kid Osama bin Laden. Time reports this week he was one of 52 kids. Mother must be exhausted. This guy inherited $80 million at age 13 and has since expanded it to $300 million through construction, smart investments and gas and oil investments. This way, he can use the money in his war against capitalism.

Running a multi-million dollar business can be frustrating at times, especially when someone does something I am not happy with. It might not even be their fault, but it is human nature to reach in an angry or heated way. However, I have learned an important and effective lesson. Rather than complain to my member of staff about their actions, I search my memory bank for things I find wonderful about them. This changes the energy around the issue instantly. People tend to live up to what you expect of them.

How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for ONE mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake.

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.

I used to be jealous; I'm not jealous anymore. And a miracle happened to me, because if you're jealous, it's a cancer, it's a plague on your spirit, it really is. And I actually cured jealousy in a very weird way - I cured it with mathematics. And I'm not a math person at all, but I've been with my wife for about seven years, so we have had sex probably, I'd like to think, like, 9 million times or, at least, 1,500. So, the way I figured it, if she goes out and screws some other guy once - I'm still winning.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

How many times have I beaten Barcelona? I don't know, three times at least.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

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

They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

If you like being patted on the back for the good times you have to be prepared to take the bad times.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.