Quotes About Periods

Staying positive and remaining hopeful even during stressful periods leads to greater happiness. Guarded optimism is better than pessimism.

Note how small stocks have had higher returns than larger stocks, but that they also have higher risks. In both the Great Depression and the 1970s bear market, small-stocks sustained higher losses than large stocks. In addition, the small stock advantage is extremely tenuous—it's less than a percent-and-a-half per year, and there have been periods of more than 30 years when large stocks have bested small stocks. For these reasons, the small-stock advantage is controversial.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.

The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.

No periods. If you sneeze, the carpet's ruined.

Is your dog in a coma?" Quinn asked when the dog didn't move a muscle."No. Lump leads an active and demanding internal life that requires long periods of rest.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I've read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I'll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

I grew up watching Keira Knightley films nonstop, and I always admired period dramas and just everything that goes into it.

My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot.

I'm not hysterical." "Of course you are. All women are. Their moments of calm are merely recuperative periods between outbursts. I

Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.