“Afternoons are the Bermuda Triangles of our days. Across many domains, the trough represents a danger zone for productivity, ethics, and health.” — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest. — James Poniewozik Copy Share Image
We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A snake came to my water-trough / On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, / To drink there. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes! — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and… — Chris Fabry Copy Share Image
Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
The last thing I would want is for Monbiot, Mann, Flannery, Jones, Hansen and the rest of the Climate rogues' gallery to… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The United Nations has long recognised that the imagination, ideals and energies of young men and women are vital for the continuing… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
…all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you. — Michael Lee-Chin Copy Share Image
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction.… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
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