Perilous Times Quotes:

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Peace, Home, Heart, Perilous Times

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

- Arthur Rubinstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Just Live Your Life, Keep A Positive Attitude

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

- George Santayana

source: George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

topic: Change, Children, Persistence, Condemning, Infancy Is

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

- John Grierson

topic: Two, Important, Opinion, Perilous Times, Conflicting Ideas

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

- Charles Dickens

source: A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

topic: Spring, Winter, Light, Incredulity, Great Literature

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

topic: Wisdom, Time, Thinking, Perilous Times

When you love life, life will love you back.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

topic: Love You, Love Life, Just Live Your Life, Keep A Positive Attitude, Inspirational Positive Attitude

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

- James W. Loewen

source: "Wicked: Number 5 in series". Book by Sara Shepard, 2011.

topic: Past, Remember, Grades, Condemning, Infancy Is

It's no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times. Anyone can be a Republican when the stock market is up, but when stocks are selling for no more than they're worth, I tell you, being a Republican - it's a sacrifice.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

topic: Business, Sacrifice, Laughing, Perilous Times

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

- David McCullough

source: FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 13, 2012

topic: History, Who We Are, Way, Navigation, Perilous Times

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

- Jon Voight

source: "Voight: My Concerns for America". www.washingtontimes.com. July 28, 2008.

topic: Country, Strong, America, Strong America, Perilous Times

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

- Carly Fiorina

source: "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

topic: Leader, Justified, Flattering, Perilous Times