Quotes for All
We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry. G. M. Trevelyan
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. Erik Larson
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. … Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge – I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form … this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the … Read more
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor is it … Read more
One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like. Chris Mohr
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. Charles Spurgeon
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. Ambrose Bierce
One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of our energy that is truly renewable is limited. Solar and wind are intermittent and they’re so diffuse, it’s difficult to harness them in a significant way. But one thing we could be doing … Read more