Spasmodic Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which… — Adam Sedgwick
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.… — Anthony Trollope
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative,… — Herman Wouk
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime,… — Roger Caillois
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad. — Vance Havner
Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the… — D. V. Ager
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work… — Gretchen Rubin
Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that… — Sylvia Plath
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was half again my size, but when we embraced, I felt like I was holding him up, and it was all I could do… — Rachel Vincent

Who Wrote These Spasmodic Quotes

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