Intervals Quotes

115 quotes by 100 authors

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. — Thomas Browne
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during… — Winston Churchill
In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good… — William Penn
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. — Oliver Goldsmith
The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals. — Charles Lamb
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their… — Walter Savage Landor
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are… — Charles Spurgeon
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended… — Samuel Johnson
The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you… — Walter Russell
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not… — Charles Darwin
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the… — James Clerk Maxwell
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and… — Charles Babbage
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. — Samuel Johnson
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals… — Nadia Boulanger
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder… — Mark Twain
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous… — Susan Sontag
The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely… — J.R.R. Tolkien
To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has… — James Russell Lowell
The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker. — David Nabarro
A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This… — Robert Henry Grant

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