What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.
I learned everything from my friends and just constant gigging in night clubs, eight sets a night!
So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.
That's gotta be the one remaining constant - jeans have gotta be tight, baby.
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
Mexico has relied on television for decades to keep the citizens misinformed and in a constant state of stupor. I mean we live in a time where democracy is almost synonymous with oligarchy.
Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.
The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas.
There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.
Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world.
If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.
The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
There is no moment where you can rest and think: 'Wonderful, I have that job now. I'm going to spend five years here.' There's a constant judgment on your work that's very strongly related to what you are.
Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.
The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.
My only problem, and this has been a constant worry on television, is time management. The deadlines on television are killing.
John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof.
Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.
What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.
The most important thing is to just stay constant and not get too high or too low.
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.
Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
Women live in a world where we are forced to consider our safety at every turn. We minimize risk while we maximize activity. It's this constant balancing act that we do.
You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
Though youth be past, and beauty fled,
The constant heart its pledge redeems,
Like box, that guards the flowerless bed
And brighter from the contrast seems.
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.
I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.
Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to practice and something that takes constant maintenance and work.
Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.
life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -
Showrunning is when you're the constant creative voice in the show. For a year-and-a-half, you are working on the scripts, you're fine-tuning them, you're the final say on the edit, the music and the cast.
Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.
If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.
Okay, well, if motion is the constant, how can I remain in motion?
Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.
Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.
I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.
The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.
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