Period Quotes
Text Quotes
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 helpful way toward one another (Period Quotes)
You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I’m there now (Period Quotes)
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 (Period Quotes)
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world (Period Quotes)
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine (Period Quotes)
Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you’re not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever (Period Quotes)
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It’s one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period (Period Quotes)
That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn’t become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do (Period Quotes)
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you’re trying to work out (Period Quotes)
My novels aren’t really generated by a single conceptual spark; it’s more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time (Period Quotes)
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it? (Period Quotes)
To protect our freedoms, it seems we’re going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time (Period Quotes)
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future... I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world (Period Quotes)
Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid (Period Quotes)
And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered (Period Quotes)
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period (Period Quotes)
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire (Period Quotes)
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty (Period Quotes)
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 and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs (Period Quotes)
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people (Period Quotes)
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures (Period Quotes)
It’s not about an opening weekend. It’s about a career, building a set of films you’re proud of. Period (Period Quotes)
People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I’ve heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven’t even heard (Period Quotes)
Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It’s impossible for it not to (Period Quotes)
I was not born a size 2. I’m not skinny, period. I’m not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else’s neck to get the job (Period Quotes)
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings (Period Quotes)
When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit (Period Quotes)
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting (Period Quotes)
I didn’t have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle (Period Quotes)
I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn’t know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day (Period Quotes)