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Quotes About Alternation

La sua vita trascorreva in una continua alternanza tra il desiderio di solitudine e quello di compagnia. «Nessuno come me avrà sprecato tante energie nella conversazione più futile, e nessuno avrà tanto detestato la gente»
~ Irene Nemirovsky
You know, if it's a three-way race, the public has more choice than if it's a two-way race, and has more choice in a two-way race than a one-way race.
~ Michael Bloomberg
We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.
~ Varlam Shalamov
There was a rhythm, an alternation in the dripping that I found as teasing as a coin trick.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
It is the custom on the stage in all good, murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as regular alternation as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky, well-cured bacon.
~ Charles Dickens
It is impossible to think of an ideal human life except as an alternation of individual and social life, as equally a belonging and an escape.
~ Northrop Frye
this alternation between centralized and decentralized power is one of the cyclical rhythms of history, as if men tired alternately of immoderate liberty and excessive order.
~ Will Durant
stability of the capitalist system is shaken by the alternation of attempts to stop economic progress in order to protect old investments and tremendous collapses when those attempts fail.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.
~ Robert Southwell
zigzagging back and forth between the two.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
DON'T CHASE, REPLACE.
~ Unknown
Sadness and gladness succeed each other
~ Proverb
I'm the person everyone replaces after a while.
~ Unknown
To such beings, such fugitive beings, their own nature and our anxiety fasten wings. And even when they are with us the look in their eyes seems to warn us that they are about to take flight. The proof of this beauty itself, that wings add is that often, for us, the same person is alternately winged and wingless.
~ Marcel Proust