Intervals Quotes

• In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Between two thoughts try to be alert; look into the interval, the space in between. You will see no mind; that is your nature. For thoughts come and go - they are accidental - but that inner space always remains. Clouds gather and go, disappear - they are accidental - but the sky remains. You are the sky.

  Rajneesh

  Space, Clouds, Sky

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• Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Essentials, Speed

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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

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  I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Clever

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

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• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  Walter Bagehot

  Meditation And Yoga, Long, Calming

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860). “The National Review”, p.234

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• There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

  Franz Schubert

  Men, Two, Brain

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• Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Passion, Men

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.264

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• Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

  Hans Hofmann

  Mean, Color, Creating

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• There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Blessed, Mean, Political

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1979). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Average, Three

  Buffalo Bill (1920). “An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill”, New York, Cosmopolitan book corporation

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• Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Beautiful, Girl

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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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• The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Order, Long, Balance

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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Smoking, Alcohol

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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• It was a dark and stormy night.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dark, Night, Snoopy

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy

  Charles M. Schulz

  Dark, Night, Snoopy

  Charles M. Schulz (2015). “Peanuts Movie Novelization”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

  Jane Austen

  Grateful, Meditation, Serious

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.707, Modern Library

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• God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

  Mark Twain

  God, Writing, Attention

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.79, 1st World Publishing

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• I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Waiting, Love And Death, Death And Dying

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• The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Inspiration, Order, Ears

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• This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in what stage it dwells there, and the manner of its quickening and feeding, and its growth, and what interval there is between one stage of growth and another, and what thing drives it forth from the body of the mother, and for what reason it sometimes emerges from the belly of its mother before the due time.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Children, Men

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• You can't be genuinely prosperous unless you have personal freedom. You will have attained true personal freedom in this world when you can get up in the morning when you want to get up; go to sleep when you want to go to sleep; and in the interval, work and play at the things you want to work and play at - all at your own pace.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Morning, Sleep, Play

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• The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Tired, Night, Light

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• Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Philosophical, Expectations

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.131, 谷月社

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