Top 1200 Period Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.
Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period.
Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.
You learn a lot more when you're going through a rough period compared to the good times when everything goes your way.
I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.
I went through a period of watching probably too many Bergman films in a row. I felt like I'd discovered the answer to what cinema should be.
I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.
Captains realise over a period that if they plan right and understand the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition, luck attaches itself to their side.
San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal
Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.
Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.
We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.
Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.
Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
I had a really strange period in my early 20s with the industry, and not succeeding the way I wanted to, and I put a lot of pressure on myself.
It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.
I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore.
It is very essential as an actor to be a perfectionist and have a knack for doing different roles over a period of time to keep their fans entertained.
I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.
Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
I played so many clubs growing up, and back in that period, in the '60s, we'd play, like, four, five sets a night.
Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.
The ideal time period to get an investment is when you've already proved your concept and know what you're doing, and it's about adding water to the seeds.
I took a long rest period. I didn't know heads or tails of what anybody wanted; it seemed as if R&B had been put on the shelf.
That time, making 'Disco Pigs,' was kind of the most important period of my life. The people I met there remain my closest friends.
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.
Behavioral economics offers a plausible explanation for overreactions by the market. For example, a long period of bad performance can lead to stereotyping.
I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen; I can visualise it through them.
He'll learn that many women can satisfy for a short period of time, but when he falls in love, only one will sustain him forever.
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
As we change our systems of voting, there will always be an adjustment period and any adjustments require robust educational campaigns.
Things were so much better in the 1970s, when I was a young women undergraduate at Yale. I am grateful to have come of age during that period.
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.
There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
Donations from private sectors can be flexibly used and greatly appreciated, as they will give my research an outlook for a long period of time.
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.
Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.
When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.
When you have a bit of a down period and everything isn't going so well, you stay humble and you just want to prove everybody wrong, and I hope I can do that.
Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
I grew up watching Keira Knightley films nonstop, and I always admired period dramas and just everything that goes into it.
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
I knew that I'd be able to climb the mountain, but in such a short period? I didn't think so. I mean, 'SmackDown Live' is the land of opportunity, and I'm a living proof of that.
I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.
