Periods Quotes · Page 12

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

— Steve Martin

According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.

— A. C. Green

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

— Lou Holtz

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

— Edward Whitacre, Jr

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

— Faye Kellerman

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

— Dan Quayle

A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.

— Aretaeus of Cappadocia

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

— Ernest Gellner

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

— Louise Bogan

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

— Joan Robinson

Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and I see every opponent as a man that…

— Fedor Emelianenko

When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know…

— Bent Saether

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

— Kurt Vonnegut

History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period…

— Paul Rogat Loeb

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached…

— T Bone Burnett

There's an old saying, "We can mess it up and God cleans it up." I haven't noticed a deity of any sort…

— Edgar Mitchell

When in our minds we pre-live our marriage, we help to determine the kind of person that we would like to be…

— Sterling W Sill

“There's nothing sexier than a girl who's like, 'I know who FDR is, I know about the New Deal, I'm going to…

— Eugene Mirman

It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can…

— Susan Jacoby

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found…

— Ryan Kwanten

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies,…

— Pauli Murray

When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of…

— Peter Senge

For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives.…

— Chang-Rae Lee

The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private…

— Jane Roberts

The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he…

— Marcel Proust

I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation…

— John McCain

I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don’t…

— Mel Gibson

In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring…

— William Carey

Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon…

— Wislawa Szymborska

I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad,…

— Elizabeth Montagu

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

— Frederick Jackson Turner

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

— Felicity Kendal

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

— Samuel Butler

I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

— Lisa Marie Presley

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

— Yukio Mishima

Nails are the period at the end of the sentence. They complete the look

— Prabal Gurung

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

— Harry S. Truman