The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which… — Henry George Copy Share Image
You should sit,” Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy. Sascha stared at him. “I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks'… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
I always like to cite John Cage's mantra, "If you can stand it for two-minutes, try it for four." In fact, when… — Yvonne Rainer Copy Share Image
True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Some beings will walk with you for the duration of this bodily existence, up to the very end. Some will come with… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Intravenous injections of extract from dog's pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing… — Frederick Banting Copy Share Image
Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices… — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“If I was ever followed again, the first thing I would do is make a 911 call and keep them on the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time... I became aware of the… — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but… — Sanford Kwinter Copy Share Image
If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The… — Philip Freneau Copy Share Image
The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
