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Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

“You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.”

Writing Trying Periods Hollywood Los Angeles Bugs Truck Flu Screenplays Plumber

Book:It's Always Something

Source: It's Always Something

“God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?”

Firsts Doe Church Periods Servant Englishmen Reformation

Author:John Milton

“If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.”

Ifs Should Persons Stuff Simple Periods Behavior Obvious Improvement Autism Medication

Author:Temple Grandin

“One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period.”

Has Beens States Nations United Views United States Struggle Greater Periods Disappointment Our Time Imperialism Asian Beacons

Author:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

“As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.”

People Knows Humans Long Human Beings Family Periods Dissolving

Book:Family

Source: Family

“We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.”

Seems Life Is House Waiting Periods Endure Teens Telephones

Book:Celestial Navigation

Source: Celestial Navigation

“the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.”

Purpose Accepting Periods Comfortable Universal Envy Characteristics Willingness Substitutes Good Work

Author:Agnes Repplier

“I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.”

Men Believe Kind I Believe Nations Understanding Greatness Development Periods Tests Noble Absence Invention Limitation Grotesque Smallness Incapability

Book:The Stones of Venice -: The Fall

Source: The Stones of Venice -: The Fall

“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”

“Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.”

Men Humans Made Human Nature Youth Periods Judgment Thirty Complexity Harsh Compounds

Book:The Miller of Old Church

Source: The Miller of Old Church

“You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.”

Lost Born Periods Lost Everything

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.”

Men Children Long Facts Problem Realizing Perfect Periods Active Manifest Psychics Inner Life Long Periods Of Time

Author:Maria Montessori

“So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment. Moment after moment you feel your last instant. In each inhalation and each exhalation there are countless instants of time. Your intention is to live in each instant.”

Ifs Feels Trying Moments Lasts Moving Time Periods Intention Instant Each Day Expecting

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.”

Men Years Long Book Body Behinds Silence Periods Late Productivity Distinction Unbroken Years Of Life Foreground

Book:Silences

Source: Silences

“Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.”

Way Giving Persons Long Book Roles Periods Crisis Obscure Limelight

Author:Susan Ertz

“People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.”

People Thinking Humans Government Energy Voice Periods Sacred Human Wisdom

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

“A woman's body works as if it knew something she didn't, and does not have her best interests at heart. If you need to look your best it will deliver you a pimple; if you don't want it to, your period will start early; if you want a baby badly your body refuses to give you one; if you are content in your life, lo, you are pregnant.”

Ifs Want Needs Giving Looks Heart Doe Body Interest Baby Periods Refuse Your Body Pregnant Women's Bodies Pimples Best Interests At Heart Body Work

Author:Fay Weldon

“When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.”

People Path Periods You Choose

Author:Tom Peters

“The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.”

World Heart Long Periods Senses Bliss Instant Clumsy

Book:Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness

Source: Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness

“Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.”

Mean Long Country Enough Grows Periods Travel Understood Contempt Fierce Traveled Beard Thorough Mustache

Book:Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio

Source: Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio

“The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.”

Should Mean Feelings Home Fire Periods Originals Altars Housewife Prompts Stay At Home Incessant Matchboxes

Book:The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story

Source: The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story

“At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.”

Mind Ideas Facts Feelings Found Given Common Century Periods Prejudice Twentieth Century

Book:Human Work

Source: Human Work

“At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.”