The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy… — Elton John Copy Share Image
After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe… — Catherine Ndereba Copy Share Image
Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? — Edward George, Baron George Copy Share Image
Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or… — James Mooney Copy Share Image
My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each… — Andrew Forge Copy Share Image
You can't be genuinely prosperous unless you have personal freedom. You will have attained true personal freedom in this world when you… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
