Intermittent Quotes

20 quotes by 16 authors

Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through… — John Berger
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a… — E. M. Forster
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,… — Henry David Thoreau
The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so… — Orison Swett Marden
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. — Margaret Drabble
Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. — Henry David Thoreau
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war. — John Boyd Orr
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as… — Fernand Braudel
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. — Charles Spurgeon
We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh… — G. M. Trevelyan
Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. — Tom Hiddleston
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. — Erik Larson
Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable. — Ambrose Bierce
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest… — Henry David Thoreau
the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form . — Maggie Stiefvater
It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. — Marisha Pessl
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and… — Tom Hiddleston
Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. — Ambrose Bierce
Intermittent lust may temporarily soothe libido, but perpetual love will forever soothe the soul (2011). — Chris McFarlane

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16 authors contributed a total of 20 Intermittent Quotes as follows: