Quotes Tagged "cycle"

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles.

She’s a manner of speaking. Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves. There are new flowers, new green leaves. There are other beautiful days. Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.

The Sanskrit texts make it clear that a cataclysm on this scale, though a relatively rare event, is expected to wash away all traces of the former world and that the slate will be wiped clean again for the new age of the earth to begin. In order to ensure that the Vedas can be repromulgated for future mankind after each pralaya the gods have therefore designed an institution to preserve them -- the institution of the Seven Sages, a brotherhood of adepts possessed of unerring memories and supernatural powers, practitioners of yoga, performers of the ancient rituals and sacrifices, ascetics, spiritual visionaries, vigilant in the battle against evil, great teachers, knowledgeable beyond all imagining, who reincarnate from age to age as the guides of civilization and the guardians of cosmic justice.

Dad would call it my Sisyphus toll. Push a boulder up a hill, pretending it’s okay, and come nightfall it - and I - come crashing down. But he forgets the view each time I make it to the top.

Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment.

Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.

It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

The fashion cycle is outdated.

I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost complete cycle of orchestral works by Richard Strauss with the Vienna Philharmonic.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.