Intervals Quotes
Intervals Quote of the day
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.
I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.
Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.
Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.
The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.
Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.
He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.
Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.
The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.
One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.
Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.
If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.
In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.
I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.
In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.
