#periods

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time. ↗

— Sarah Brady

#finds #from time to time #gun #his #how

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#always #bit #gone #madness #periods

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write. ↗

— Hannah Cowley

#charms #could #immortal #inspired #more

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. ↗

— Anne Perry

#before #born #both #couple #england

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#become #child #classroom #different #different levels

So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #change #conclusions #considered #draw

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#fiction #history #inexhaustible #limit #lived

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. ↗

— Peter Warlock

#history #interest #musical #only #periods

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#been #convince #had #i #over

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#awful #been #burn #compositions #destroyed