Alternations Quotes

#1. All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

Honore De Balzac

#2. I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#3. The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light
only those who have experienced it can understand it.

Albert Einstein

#4. The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.

Albert Einstein

#5. The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. I admired my father very much ... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

Delmore Schwartz

#7. This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump.

Virginia Woolf

#8. Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow.

Evelyn Waugh

#9. I'm still alive," Gabriel pointed out. "Nick is also still alive, as is Merit. Everybody wave.

Chloe Neill

#10. Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#11. Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

Leonid Andreyev

#12. Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Baruch Spinoza

#13. I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

Dalai Lama

#14. Don't be afraid of life. How good life is when one does somethings good and just.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

Stephen King

#16. Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

Pat Conroy

#18. I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#19. Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't

Bill Nye

#20. I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid.

Delta Burke