The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each,… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do?… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Between two thoughts try to be alert; look into the interval, the space in between. You will see no mind; that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The mandated description of fetal characteristics at two-week intervals, no matter how objective, is plainly overinclusive. [It is] not medical information that… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black… — Jack Campbell Copy Share Image
