Periods Quotes - Page 7

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.

When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.

There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little.

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

I took a long period off to be a mom.

There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.

I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.

I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

Each period has its own appeal.

Life is the only sentence which doesn't end with a period.

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.

There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.