Best Periods Sayings
2166 Periods quotes by 1659 unique authors
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I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate…
— Jim Carrey
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I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had…
— Jim Carrey
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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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I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful…
— Dick Cheney
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and…
— Winston Churchill
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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for…
— Albert Claude
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It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.
— George Clooney
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I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's…
— Jarvis Cocker
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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 know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband.…
— Pat Robertson
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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We have to identify everybody that's here, and there's going to be an appropriate discussion in Congress on how to deal with an individual who…
— Rick Perry
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Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period…
— Robert Cochrane
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Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside, but when you…
— Peter Levitt
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I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my team. I love…
— Jamila Wideman
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It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.
— Hyman Taubman
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However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.
— Unknown Author
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In…
— Ernst Haeckel
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own…
— John Playfair
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Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive…
— Derek J. de Solla Price
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Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We…
— Richard G. Scott
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