“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.” TryingYearsSometimesWould BeLyingNightImaginePeriodsOddAwakeBeing The BestSeventiesAwake At Night Author:Michael Dirda
“Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.” WorldYearsHumansLyingPurposeHumanityThis WorldPeriodsTerribleCreaturesOfficePaperMassLettersStoresFavorsChristmasCardsPostsShopsBrownStringsNervesOccupationStampsAmusementPursesSuspendedPurgatoryPost OfficeFortnightMidwinter Author:Rose Macaulay
“An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.” MayArtSelfMomentsLyingArtistHealingCreativeExpressionPeriodsSolitudeEncountersMe AloneSelf ExpressionAlone TimeUpkeepRecharging Author:Julia Cameron
“The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!” EarthLyingPoorPeriodsClothesShoesPrivilegeDirtyRomeBeggarRaggedPicturesque Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.” MenChildrenEndsEyeLyingPeriodsPossessionSentencesHis EyesCarrieAnother ManHeirsGravestone Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.” NeedsHumansImportantSeemsLyingPassionGivenHuman NaturePeriodsHistoricalConfusionEtcMisunderstanding Author:Erich Fromm
“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.” CareWantedLyingPeriods Author:Jack Nicholson
“In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.” WorldLyingCertainValuesCultureDifficultSleepPeriodsQuietDown AndContemplatingEasternGoing To SleepOther CulturesWesternersGreat ValueWithdrawing Author:Shakti Gawain
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.” PeopleIfsTwoLyingPurposeOpportunityPeriodsSolitudeHighestTasksCrowdsIndifferenceIsolationProvidingLove And Friendship Book:Selected Letters Source: Selected Letters
“Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.” YearsMadeLyingBlackWhiteProgressPlanetsPeriodsLet MeFolksAfrican AmericanSpite Author:Dick Gregory
“When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.” LyingPeriodsMarried Author:Kevin Hart
“You will free yourself from emotional drama by uncovering all the lies you believe in. It is a process of unlearning the lies. It is a period of cleansing, and it has nothing to do with the dream of society.” BelieveDreamLyingProcessEmotionalPeriodsDramaCleansingFree YourselfUncovering Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz
“I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.” LittlesMadeLyingCertainBitsActingPeriodsLittle BitSingingLaysStrainVocal Author:Robert Davi