#period

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his

I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem. ↗

— Ed Rendell

#any #being #exacerbate #i #i think

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#gigantic #had #i #kid #life

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#long #long period #made #measurements #period

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#arise #brief #brief period #cosmic #insignificant

But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat. ↗

— Alan Vega

#became #eminem #especially #fall #first

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#appeared #arrangement #arts #creative #culmination

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

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#ballot #before #business #conventions #delegates

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#day #hours #misspent #mostly #period