Periods Quotes - Page 8

• the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

  Agnes Repplier

  Envy, Purpose, Good Work

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• I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Greatness, Men

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.158, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Character, Thinking

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• Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Youth, Human Nature

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

  Simone Weil

  Lost Everything, Lost, Born

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.177, Psychology Press

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• One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Men, Psychics

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• So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment. Moment after moment you feel your last instant. In each inhalation and each exhalation there are countless instants of time. Your intention is to live in each instant.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Time, Moving, Trying

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• Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.

  Tillie Olsen

  Book, Men, Years

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.38, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.

  Susan Ertz

  Book, Long, Giving

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• People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Thinking, Government, Voice

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.357, Oxford Paperbacks

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• A woman's body works as if it knew something she didn't, and does not have her best interests at heart. If you need to look your best it will deliver you a pimple; if you don't want it to, your period will start early; if you want a baby badly your body refuses to give you one; if you are content in your life, lo, you are pregnant.

  Fay Weldon

  Baby, Heart, Giving

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• When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

  Tom Peters

  People, Path, You Choose

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• The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Heart, Long, World

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness”, p.288, Aeterna Press

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• Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.

  Fanny Fern

  Country, Travel, Mean

  Fanny Fern (1854). “Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio”, p.274

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• The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

  Hannah Arendt

  Long, History, Duration

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Home, Mean, Fire

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.167, e-artnow

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• At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Ideas, Feelings, Mind

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.47, Rowman Altamira

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• At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.

  John Shelby Spong

  Easter, Religion, Three

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Resurrection: Myth or Reality?”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Father, Blood, Mad

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?

  Charles Teo

  Cancer, Brain, Diagnosis

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• I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school to perform. I was not just keen on that, it was during that time, during the school period then from an early age, that I began to dream about acting.

  George Ogilvie

  Dream, Writing, School

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• During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.

  Antonis Samaras

  Order, Government, Needs

  Source: www.slate.com

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• My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.

  Joan Larkin

  Book, Years, Movement

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

  Mel Gibson

  Race, Way, Sexuality

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. April 21, 2011.

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• A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

  Ashley Judd

  Self, Order, Abuse

  "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.

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