#bursts

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#dedication #emotion #frenzied #lifetime #outbursts

The sky seemed filled with diving planes and the black bursts of exploding antiaircraft shells. ↗

— Dorie Miller

#bursts #diving #exploding #filled #planes

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#bursts #coldly #cracks #dead #down

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. ↗

— George MacDonald

#bursts #decay #fresh #husk #life

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#being a lady #bursts #i #lady #last

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time. ↗

— Iain Glen

#bursts #down #energy #familiar #giving

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#black #bright #bursts #cloud #coming

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#always #breath #complacency #draw #first

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#also #around #being #economic #emotional

I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#distances #energy #fastest #i #just