(1383 quotes found)
“Our favourite holding period is forever.”
Warren Buffett
“Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living”
Carey Williams
“You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.”
“The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.”
Dan Gable
“The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality”
Heywood C. Broun
“A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.”
Coco Chanel
“At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.”
Cesare Pavese
“Youth is a period of missed opportunities.”
Cyril Connolly
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world”
Charles Darwin
“YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”
Ambrose Bierce
