Period Quotes
Text Quotes
Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course (Period Quotes)
We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I’m an optimist (Period Quotes)
Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies (Period Quotes)
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex (Period Quotes)
In any high stress situation you are going to default to your level of training... period (Period Quotes)
Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country (Period Quotes)
Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period (Period Quotes)
You shouldn’t own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress (Period Quotes)
Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused (Period Quotes)
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction (Period Quotes)
The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six (Period Quotes)
I’ve been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it’ll turn. Right now I’m just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order (Period Quotes)
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject (Period Quotes)
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool’s calendar (Period Quotes)
One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in the pursuits of the intellect as well as in others (Period Quotes)
Faith and force... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny (Period Quotes)
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That’s it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you (Period Quotes)
Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort (Period Quotes)
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery (Period Quotes)
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood (Period Quotes)
The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern... American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity (Period Quotes)
There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period (Period Quotes)
Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this won’t come as much of a surprise (Period Quotes)
The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child (Period Quotes)
A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend (Period Quotes)
You have a right to your opinion and I’ve got a right to mine. Period (Period Quotes)
Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence (Period Quotes)
It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break (Period Quotes)
Adversity is like the period of the rain... cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate (Period Quotes)
Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace (Period Quotes)