Periods Quotes · Page 132

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To…

— William Godwin

We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of…

— Octavia Butler

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness;…

— Wyndham Lewis

In the early period of Left struggles, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were many different trajectories for the…

— Vijay Prashad

DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night,…

— Ambrose Bierce

[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice…

— Agnieszka Holland

Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing…

— Gretl Braun

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

— Yukio Mishima

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

— Pierre Cardin

Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how…

— Ronald Reagan

The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on…

— Thomas Guthrie

Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I…

— Mitchell Baker

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can…

— Freddie Gibbs

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the…

— Richard Armitage

The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a…

— Marco Brambilla

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England…

— Goldwin Smith

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be…

— James Mercer

I've tried, in periods of unemployment, to pick up a paintbrush.

— Paul Kaye

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death…

— Stanislav Grof

As a matter of fact, there was a period of time, especially in my first career, when that's the only one who…

— George Foreman

This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future.…

— ElRay L. Christiansen

A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows…

— Rosamond Lehmann

Just as the pioneers made the desert blossom as a rose, so too our lives and families will blossom if we follow…

— L. Tom Perry

I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's…

— Neko Case

I don't like, speaking about the movie, if I may say couple more words, I like a movie that doesn't drag too…

— Tommy Wiseau