Period Quotes

• Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 billion euros a year. So, we have to ask ourselves: Aren't we willing to pay a tenth of that over several years for Europe's unity?

  

  Peer Steinbruck
  • Period
  • Unity
  • German

• For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence convention,' permit freer voting, strengthen the role of back benchers and committees, do away with ineffectual 'take note' debates, restructure question period, and so on.

  

  Preston Manning
  • Question
  • Confidence
  • Period

• The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

  

  Frederick Jackson Turner
  • American
  • History
  • Frontier

• It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Weird

• A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance.

  

  Aristotle
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Defined

• I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • God
  • Strong
  • Period

• Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Period

• I like period pieces.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Period

• To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Time
  • Period

• All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Up
  • America
  • War

• It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Life
  • Why
  • Period

• We are going through a period of profound political and economic change around the world, and American citizens showed that deep desire for change in voting to elect Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • World
  • American
  • Political

• The country will not have to pay the piper. Through a combination of sound policy actions and a great deal of good luck we are well on our way to a soft landing and a period of growth and price stability.

  

  Lawrence Summers
  • Good
  • Great
  • Country

• As a young planet, Venus was losing hydrogen rapidly to space. The oceans boiled off, and after some period of time, perhaps 600 million years, there was no surface water.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Time
  • Space
  • Water

• We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Cleveland County was lucky through that whole period.

  

  Marty Allen
  • Period
  • Lucky
  • County

• Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Period

• That period between finishing the film and opening night is agonising. That's part of why actors go from job to job - so they don't have to live with the anxiety in the interim.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Live
  • Why
  • Job

• The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline

  

  Wilhelm Ostwald
  • Patterns
  • Decline
  • Organism

• Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Education
  • Period
  • Maturity

• I used to always want to play the perfect match, and this meant not losing a point. The realisation came around the time I was 19 years old, in the French Open final in 2007. This was a key period in my career. I was told I was going for too many winners, which was affecting my game.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Time
  • Game
  • Career

• I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

  

  Rick Boucher
  • Period
  • Using
  • Approximately

• I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Life
  • Age
  • Nice

1

...

40

41

42

43

44

...

69

previous

next