Periods Quotes · Page 142

There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form…

— Miles Millar

I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen…

— Ruth Rendell

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

— William Sadler

I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it…

— Anna Quindlen

Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that…

— Benjamin Spock

I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.

— Chris Messina

We have in fact entered upon the final phase..., the darkest period of this dark age, the state of dissolution from which…

— Rene Guenon

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than…

— Daniel Kahneman

To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of…

— Raymond Geuss

I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade…

— Nancy Lancaster

I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of…

— Anonymous

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

— Ovid

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys…

— Gerry Cooney

For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw…

— Markus Zusak

Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of…

— Dov Davidoff

I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

— Claude Monet

I know my priorities... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in…

— Marilou

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And…

— Bono

I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods…

— Al Jourgensen

She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that…

— David F. Swensen

It seems to me that instead of cutting taxes, we ought to be increasing the taxes to pay off the deficit, rather…

— Walter Cronkite

I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.

— Manolo Blahnik