Quotes About Spasmodic

#1. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Anthony Trollope

#2. Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic.

Robert Aris Willmott

#4. You think my gait 'spasmodic' - I am in danger - Sir - You think me 'uncontrolled' - I have no Tribunal.

Emily Dickinson

#5. Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that rare, random descent.

Sylvia Plath

#7. It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit. They now and then make a spasmodic effort to throw off a nightmare debt of some years' accumulation, and then sink back into unconscious repose.

Adoniram Judson

#8. The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.

Charles A. Beard

#9. My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're traveling in the air the plane not crash, things like that.

Frederick Buechner

#10. So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards any small chink of light that I thought I saw ... As the years went by, it did not get lighter but I became accustomed to the dark

Quentin Crisp

#11. He was half again my size, but when we embraced, I felt like I was holding him up, and it was all I could do to remain standing. He buried his face in my hair, his body shaking against me with the spasmodic rhythm of unrestrained sobs. It was almost more than I could bear gracefully.

Rachel Vincent

#12. Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

Vance Havner

#13. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

Tillie Olsen

#14. Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn't mean I can't be the first.

Scott Adams

#15. The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common Law.

Herman Wouk

#16. The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Robert Aris Willmott

#17. Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

D. V. Ager

#18. A small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic Hercules.

Francis Bacon

#19. the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

Laura Vanderkam

#20. We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented them, in sleepless nights, tears, spasmodic laughter, rashes, asthmas, epilepsies, and the fear of death, which is worse than all the rest.

Marcel Proust

#21. You good?" he asked. Her answer was, "I have you." He liked that answer but he had to be sure and he communicated this by saying, "Babe." She got him and he knew this when she reiterated with emphasis, "Yes, Jake, of course I'm good. I have you.

Kristen Ashley

#22. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Walt Disney Company

#23. Together they were more than they each were alone. They didn't take away from each other, they added all that they were.

Danielle Steel

#24. Hit the Dead for they won't listen,
Hit the Dead for they don't know,
Hit the Dead they're all imprisoned,
Hit the Dead before they go...

Peter L Masters

#25. Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.

Patricia A. McKillip

#26. This shows you are never too old to get surprised.

Jack Welch

#27. Create your own tomorrows with your thoughts and actions - today.

Catherine DeVrye

#28. Love is louder then the pressure to be perfect.

Demi Lovato