Period When Quotes
63 quotes by 61 authors
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good…
— Samuel Butler
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these…
— Nick Cave
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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
— Jean Cocteau
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I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst…
— Gary Barlow
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Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.
— William Pinnock
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It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a beginning…
— William Buckland
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I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were…
— Sheryl Crow
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THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE…
— Jenny Holzer
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After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely…
— Antonio Gramsci
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The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In…
— Emily Oster
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Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world was operated with…
— Paul Einzig
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We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the…
— Thomas Berry
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style…
— Coco Chanel
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At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy,…
— James Madison
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as…
— W. Averell Harriman
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Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the…
— Joel Osteen
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I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.
— Pierre Cardin
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I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see…
— Lawrence Kasdan
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