Quotes of: Time-period Keyword

They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type. And all were distinctively “scientists” of the period. Formerly this would have implied a rather uncritical leanin...

Last and First Men

[from ] In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by passions; and there was the same complex mental and moral life among the upper classes, where were in some instances even more refined than now. If we...

Leo Tolstoy

Be proud of being a woman; proud of everything that comes in the package - including the mood swings of pms, the frustration of periods, the labour pains, everything. Along with the pms comes deeper understanding of yourself, your weaknesses and chan...

Arti Honrao

Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135 million between 1981 and 2004 - in other words, more than half a billion people were lifted out of poverty. The number of poor peopl...

Wang Shaoguang

You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.

Mario Andretti

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.

Nelson Rockefeller

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

Joshua Bell

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

Jerry Saltz

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

Mature Themes

The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputatio...

David Novak

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

Rebecca Hall

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

Roland Joffe

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

Susanna Hoffs

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Tony Curtis

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

Tuppence Middleton

Over rolling long periods, U.S. and non-U.S. stocks tend to equalize.

Kenneth Fisher

I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

Kelly Rowland

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

Kesha

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

Leo Ornstein

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.

Robbie Robertson