People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better. — Lisa Niemi Copy Share Image
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time. — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
I started a trial period a couple of weeks ago as a correspondent for 'Extra,' and now it's become full time. — Holly Madison Copy Share Image
Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense… — Tom Berenger Copy Share Image
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance:… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out… — Lindsay Davenport Copy Share Image
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure… — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century...… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one -… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period. — Terrell Owens Copy Share Image
If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period. — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
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