Welcome to Different Times Quotes, where we delve into the wisdom, wit, and insights of various periods throughout history. Time is not merely a linear progression; it’s a tapestry woven with the threads of diverse cultures, experiences, and perspectives. In exploring quotes from different eras, we gain a deeper appreciation for the rich tapestry of human thought and emotion that transcends the boundaries of time and space.
From the ancient wisdom of philosophers and sages to the modern musings of thinkers and leaders, each era offers its unique lens through which we can view the world. These quotes serve as windows into the past, illuminating the triumphs, struggles, and enduring truths that have shaped human civilization. Whether it’s a timeless adage from a bygone era or a contemporary reflection on the challenges of our times, the words of the past continue to resonate with relevance and insight in our lives today.
Below, you’ll find a curated collection of quotes spanning different epochs and cultures. Feel free to explore, reflect, and engage with these pearls of wisdom. Whether you choose to copy them, pair them with images, or embellish them with stylish fonts, let these quotes inspire and enrich your journey through the annals of time.
Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it’s not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it’s an unhealthy connection. Tara Stiles
At different times in life, I’ve felt like it’s time to say goodbye from some form of myself that’s been hanging around for a while – you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They’re just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where’s it’s just time to move on. Kevin Parker
To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times. David Lynch
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette – manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures. Judith Martin
I’ve listened to a lot of different styles of music growing up, and they’ve all influenced me at different times in my life. Kirstin Maldonado
I want to make work that reflects different times and processes. Cornelia Parker
God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us. Robert Jeffress
I was never afraid of my ambition – other people have been. I feel like it’s been received at different times as if I’m a threat to their ambition. And I was always like, I don’t see it that way, I’m sorry that you do. Ariana DeBose
We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again. Everett Dirksen
Hard work most often leads to success, but it’s not every day, and it’s not every week. It will pay off at different times over the course of your career. Sallie Krawcheck
Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith. Maria Monk
I understand now the different games and the different approaches that you need to take at different times, with different styles of play. Ross Barkley
There are things that happen, at different times in your life. You go through natural changes in life, when you reach your 30s, mid-30s and 40s, and you go through these different stages. Tom Payne
At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about ‘the nation’ in all of them. Anne Applebaum
Everybody has their own path. Everybody peaks at different times. Dustin Poirier
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain’s chair. Patrick Stewart
I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I’m not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye. Amy Grant
A political revolution must proceed simultaneously with the nationalist revolution. When we overthrow the Manchu regime, we will achieve not only a nationalist revolution against the Manchus but also a political revolution against monarchy. They are not to be carried out at two different times. Sun Yat-sen
I get a lot of tattoos for people in my family. Some of my friends I have tattoos for, some of my religious beliefs, things that represent me in different times of my life. They kind of tell a story. I like them. Trace Cyrus
I’ve gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as ‘Do I fit in? Does this person like me?’ – remember why you’re there and what you want to accomplish. Mae Jemison
I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times. George Best
Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, ‘Hey let’s look at what is really important and let’s do that now.’ Ann Romney
I think you grieve different elements, you grieve your wife who’s gone, you grieve the fact she had cancer and you had to watch her die, you grieve the fact the life you built isn’t going to be the same as the one going forward. All these different elements hit you at different times. Andrew Strauss
We were always reminded by our teachers that careers take off at different times. They held up Arthur Lowe as a great example of an actor who works for years and then suddenly he gets a part and everybody knows him. Adrian Dunbar
In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued. William Godwin
I prioritise different things at different times, so when a cricket tour is coming up, cricket takes priority. But then there are times when I need to focus on my studies. I think it’s good to have a balance. Isa Guha
There’s so much pressure to be at a certain level in your job and at a certain place in your life, but if everyone was doing things at the same time, then life would be so boring. Everyone reaches different stages at different times. Caroline Flack
Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for ‘democracy’ has meant different things to different people at different times and places. Robert A. Dahl
Literature hasn’t come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times – it’s still dealing with how one resolves issues of existence. Gao Xingjian
There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers. Rudy Giuliani
I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places where I would just think on the page, trying to parse what I was feeling, to find out what I was thinking. Tracy K. Smith
The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it’s okay, because we can stay the course. Marc Andreessen
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control. Oliver Joseph Lodge
Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Everyone experiences different parts of themselves at different times, these different parts of themselves that come out in different settings. Amandla Stenberg
Lifelong learning is becoming commonplace, with people studying at different times when they see the benefits of doing so. Esther McVey
I don’t believe you can get into somebody’s character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different. Carice van Houten
I have this nook at Milk Bar that’s my office, and my desk was just full of every box of Kellogg’s cereal, and at different times during the day, I would open up a box, eat a bowl of cereal, and I live in a world of Post-it notes, so I would leave tasting notes on all the cereal. Christina Tosi
During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got things straightened out. Under the Carter years, again a Democrat Congress, the government shut down five times. Mitt Romney
Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching. Leo Buscaglia
The biggest influence? I’ve had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs. Jackson Browne
With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I’ve found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying. Wilt Chamberlain
Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while their partner sleeps. Mark Goulston
I gave up a lot of money to stay with the Braves four different times and I don’t regret any second of it. John Smoltz
I get inspired at different times and in different ways. Rick Springfield
My influences are all over the place. Different films have spoken to me at different times in my life, and they’ve helped create my idea of the kind of films I want to make. Andrew Haigh
I mean, I’ve done different things at different times that I shouldn’t have done, once or twice, you know. George Michael
You have to stay open, and things may come at different times, but I have to dream big, and that’s what I’m going to be doing. Tammy Abraham
Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it’s a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times, I’ve tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form. George C. Wolfe
Sometimes, of course, there’s no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you’ll land at a low-traffic hour, there’s nothing you can do. Hanya Yanagihara
Some guys like to eat two or three different times a day before the game. I eat once, and that’s it. Lou Williams
If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they’re not touching one another. Bruce Lipton
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity. Charlie Kaufman
My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don’t remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles. Blake Lively
I’ve had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people – whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people. Lil Peep
Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach. James Lind
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. Charles Edward Montague
Identity is made up of lots of different things now. Different colors and patterns stand out at different times. Different instruments in the symphony of being are more distinct than others at different times. Darryl Pinckney
‘Phase’ is a special song to me, and I wanted the video to make you feel like you are on a journey with me. My team and I shot this video three different times, and every time I got it back, I wanted to go a step further. Gunna
At different times in my life, I’ve made grand statements like, ‘I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.’ I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don’t know when it’s going to happen or how it’s going to happen. I’ll just take it one day at a time, and when I’m ready, I’ll be ready. It’ll reveal itself, I guess. America Ferrera
The scriptures were one of the ways God spoke to me – even when I was a child – about my needs, my situation, and my life. They still are. Since our needs change over a lifetime, God has different things to tell us at different times. Henry B. Eyring
It’s hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration was better suited to handle that than the former. Montel Williams
A lot of people experience racism at different times on different terms. Luol Deng
At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view. T Bone Burnett
I don’t really prepare things necessarily. I have some ideas that I want to make sure I get across to our guys. But then when I stand up in front of our guys, whenever I do that – whether it’s at different times during the season, or certainly at the start of spring training – I want it to be from the heart, and unscripted. Aaron Boone
Every single discussion I have with a first AD, or producers, is time of day. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve fought for early-morning calls. The light is 90 percent of our job; we as humans respond to light and where it is at different times of day and not only in positive ways. Greig Fraser
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat – a different one at different times of the day. I think I’m more a part of their ritual. Sarah Addison Allen
I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends. Tonya Harding
I’m forever being told, and intrinsically understand, that people want to study at different times in their lives, often inspired to do so when they see the practical benefits of their studies. Esther McVey
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions. Scott Ian
I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can’t believe that the handsomest man in the world, Cary Grant, and the greatest performer in the world, Fred Astaire, and Johnny Carson, one after another – they were all in my home at different times. I celebrated my 50th birthday with them. Unforgettable. Tony Bennett
I’m interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times. Jaquelin T. Robertson
I lived in New York for five years; I’ve lived in Barcelona, Rome, and Paris at different times. When I was 18, I was dying to live in a city. Margherita Missoni
Nature has different times. Michael Tippett
As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things. Rick Ross
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one. Saint Ignatius
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston. James Spader
I’ve been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life. Geri Halliwell
Maradona and Messi played in different times and in different positions. Messi is much more a striker, Diego was all over the entire pitch. They are two extraordinary players. Diego Simeone
I glance through the pages of all the top magazines every month just to see if there are any colors that are trending. I’ll also go on Instagram and look at the ‘popular’ page to see what people are liking, what’s cool. I’ll check it at different times of the day; for example, if it’s really late in L.A., you’ll see a lot of posts in Asia. Michelle Phan
Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it’s my musicians or a cast of a show that I’m in. And then when you’re in the studio or on set, it’s a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better. Idina Menzel
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. Estelle Morris
‘Frozen’ definitely isn’t about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that. Idina Menzel
In re-reading ‘Presumed Innocent,’ the one thing that struck me – and I re-read the book four different times in writing ‘Innocent,’ interested in different things each time – but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I probably didn’t need. The other thing that sort of amazed me was how discursive the book was. Scott Turow
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. John Dalberg-Acton
Desserts are all about form and function, about warm and hot and cold. I want every component to hit your palate on different levels at different times. Sherry Yard
Boxing’s a funny business and sometimes different fights come along at different times. George Groves
A lot of art can potentially make people uncomfortable, particularly when it deals with different times and hard issues. Mary Katharine Ham
Different times need different types of leadership. Park Geun-hye
I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time. Victoria Osteen
I think I’m a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I’m kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don’t think I’m as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do. Sprague Grayden
It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You’ve got to be the best of that week for the four weeks. Karrie Webb
It might be asked, ‘How much time shall I allow myself for rest?’ The answer is that no rule of universal application can be given, as all persons do not require the same measure of sleep, and also the same persons, at different times, according to the strength or weakness of their body, may require more or less. George Muller
Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos – six different times he approached me, and I didn’t sign him. Shame on me. Fat Joe
I have five tattoos. One says conquer, another Svatantra, a third mind over matter. I have a heart on my collar bone, and another tattoo saying Always Mommy’s Girl. I got these tattoos in different places at different times in my life and they all mean something to me. Ananya Birla
The girl that introduced The Smiths’ song ‘Asleep’ to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there it’s been an ongoing journey of different bands at different times, introducing bands and songs to me. Stephen Chbosky
I broke ribs three different times. Garrett McNamara
You express different energies at different times in your life. Marisa Tomei
No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times. Brad Paisley
At different times in your life, your body needs different things. Jessy Schram
