Quotes About Interval

Nor can it be argued that the time required is too short to be perceived; for though this may be the case in short distances, it cannot be so in distances so great as that which separates the East from the West.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

in particular, all the work of it gave her a short respite

the white spaces that lie between hour and hour

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.

Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

Life: The interval between the time your teeth are almost through and you are almost through with your teeth.

Every hour or so, he looked at his watch, and it would be three or four minutes later.

Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.

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.

The natural state of man is war. I think that peace is an interval for preparation." The novel is significant because

A broken clock is right two times a day.

chasm between

Life is something very short that happens in between deaths.

Three years passed. And then there was a sticker.

Peace is the short interval when nations toil to pay the costs of past and future wars.

According to the FBI, a serial killer is anyone who murders three or more victims with a significant interval of time between each homicide.

While I can have my mornings to myself," said she, "it is enough—I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements. Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody.

Clearly, enriching the cosmos with heavy elements takes a while. So there's inevitably an interval between the sterile aftermath of the Big Bang and a time when the cosmic chemistry set had enough ingredients to make rocky planets (and squishy biology).

I have my turbo bike at home, so I can do high cadence stuff and interval sessions on there, and then I get out on the road once a week to do a 50km ride.

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

but each battery held five years bunched into increments of sixty seconds

long gaps between sequels to books.

Speech always begins with stammering. Acts and action always begin with trembling. There is no continuum of the will. It acts on the body by fits and starts (stossweise) and is the product of an interval, a rapid alternation, between tension and release: to act is to produce a difference - even a slight one - between you and yourself. If you eliminate the intervals, tetany ensues: you shake all over.