Period Quotes

In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

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

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.