#period

During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained. ↗

— David Ricardo

#capital #continue #during #employment #flowing

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration. ↗

— David Ricardo

#comparatively #discoveries #discovery #doubt #duration

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#character #great #i #i think #like

I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#gone #i #live #live performances #months

Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#austin #before #building #center #day

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#creating #encompasses #golden #golden age #great

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #book #day #five #garden

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. ↗

— James Buchan

#good #history #must #naturally #passions

One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#aspect #centuries #come #during #evolved

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#country #elsewhere #england #longer #man