Quotes for All
And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do – if there’s enough of it – is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It’s there, somewhere. Esther … Read more
For a lifetime I had bathed with becoming regularity, and thought the world would come to an end unless I changed my socks every day. But in Africa I sometimes went without a bath for two months, and I went two weeks at a time without even changing my socks. Oddly enough, it didn’t seem … Read more
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration. … Read more
Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation. Edwin A. Abbott
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. Edward Sapir
The question of whether it’s God’s green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying. Edward Hoagland
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe. Earl Nightingale
For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine–what is … Read more
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb Francois Fenelon