Tempora Quotes & Sayings

Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore. — Nikki Reed

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis," Douglas commented. Times change, and we change with them. — S.C. Gwynne

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? — Robert Downey Jr.

Only a few of the women sport pubic hair. He's never understood what that's about. Some of the men are bare, too. O tempora, o mores. — Kelly Link

To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought. — Swami Vivekananda

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me. — Julian Schnabel

Life has a way of taking you past your wants and hopes. Instead, it drops you in front of what you need. — Shannon L. Alder

Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon. — David Lloyd

Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then," said Will. "I'll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery. — Cassandra Clare

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. — William Goldman

Philosophers have often held dispute
As to the seat of thought in man and brute
For that the power of thought attends the latter
My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,
And spite of dogmas current in all ages,
One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!) — Edgar Allan Poe

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris — Ovid

O tempora! O mores!
O what times (are these)! what morals! — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
[Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.] — Ovid

Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by. — Dean Martin

Before every shot, I go to the movies — Jack Nicklaus

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do. — C.S. Lewis