Periods Quotes - Page 12

• Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mom, Mother, Powerful

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• In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

  Faye Kellerman

  Blessing, Dying Alone, Solitude

  Faye Kellerman (2009). “The Quality of Mercy”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• Jerome Daley reminds us of the beauty, presence, and purpose of God in the waiting period, and that God is just as amazing then as He is at any other time. Readers will grow to trust God even more, and will be greatly rewarded as they are encouraged to faint not.

  Che Ahn

  Waiting, Purpose, Trust In God

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• Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Strong, Broken, Overcoming

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers”, Fawcett

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• My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Daughter, Fall, Mean

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

  Luo Guanzhong

  Long, Heaven, World

  "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Book by Luo Guanzhong (Chapter 1, opening lines), 14th century.

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• All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.

  Steve Harvey

  Growing Up, Father, Taught

  "Steve at Ease". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. April 19, 2012.

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• The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody's personality.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Country, Sex, Views

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 5, 2013.

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• I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

  Selma Blair

  Voice, People, Acting

  "Selma Blair interview: 'I could be living in a castle right now, with Tom Cruise'". Interview with Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2012.

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• They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

  Robert McNamara

  Mistake, Nuclear, Weapons

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, www.imdb.com. August 30, 2003.

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• I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to wear them at home. We're talking about a different time period now, when the man was much more the ruler of the house. But I still feel that way, and neither my mother nor Maria is allowed to go out with me in pants.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mother, Father, Hate

  "THE CALIFORNIA RECALL / Out of the mouth of Arnold, from growing up to who wears the pants" by Lance Williams, www.sfgate.com. October 4, 2003.

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• I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Who I Am, Ideas

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• We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work

  James Fallows

  Reality, Class, Long

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• A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Stories, Pieces, Adaptation

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• In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

  Michelle Dockery

  Fashion, War, Celebration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

  Montgomery Clift

  Want Something, People, Energy

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• I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?

  Gillian Jacobs

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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• I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

  Albert Brooks

  Player, Chinatown, Certain

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• I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

  Austin Butler

  Rebellious, Mess, Persons

  "Austin Butler, ‘Carrie Diaries’ Star: ‘I Was Rebellious And A Mess Of A Person’" by Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Looks, Youth

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• There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Iron, Suffering

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• States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.

  George Herbert

  Body, States, Wells

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.373

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• I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Fun, Stuff, Whimsical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film I can't sit still.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Jumping, Lasts, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Fashion, Thinking, Animal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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