Fitful Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's… — Edward McKendree Bounds
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. — William Shakespeare
Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into… — Carolyn Heilbrun
I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening? — Jackson Browne
Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely… — Celia Thaxter
Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful… — Lewis Mumford
Some people ask who they are and expect their feelings to tell them. But feelings are flickering flames that fade after every fitful stimulus. Some… — Lewis B. Smedes
And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no… — E L Doctorow
And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race.… — Robert W. Service
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that… — H.G. Wells
The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen
Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's… — Wallace Stevens
Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have… — Alan Lightman
...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe
And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea â€” some news of your own life. But… — Mary Oliver
There were things out there in the world, things that vampires feared, and now those things were here. She was only seconds out of a… — Rachel Caine
[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient… — Frederick Douglass
Beauty is momentary in the mind The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty… — Wallace Stevens

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