Differentperiods Quotes

#1. That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.

Herman Melville

#2. According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually

Bill McKibben

#3. It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Bell Hooks

#4. That's the whole story of how I was so stupid as to risk everything that mattered to me, on something so meaningless.

Mhairi McFarlane

#5. Mother's love grows by giving.

Charles Lamb

#6. He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

Ian McEwan

#7. The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.

Seth Godin

#8. It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.

Nancy Garden

#9. The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.

Alistair Begg

#10. For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse,
and the rational need for a mate in life

Leo Tolstoy

#12. The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

John Green

#13. I dont know why everybody is giving Prince Harry a hard time. Hes like every other red-blooded American man - he wants to get drunk and go out with hookers.

Nathan Lane

#14. I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.

Alber Elbaz