She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. The combination of trials and their… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration… — Hans Berger Copy Share Image
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let me demonstrate. When you greet a friend this is the duration of the kiss that's acceptable. "Hi, good to see you… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ...… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
“...living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Never let the weight of challenges and the duration of your dreams scare you to give up.” — israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives. — Elizur Wright Copy Share Image
Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world… — John Schlesinger Copy Share Image
“Life isn't just about the duration you spend, but by the donation of impact you can pass out before you eventually pass-out” — Seyi Ayoola Copy Share Image
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling. — John William Draper Copy Share Image
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image