Smart on Crime says if you commit violent crimes, you should go to jail, and go to jail for extended periods of time. For people who are engaged in non-violent crimes – any crimes, for that matter – we are looking for sentences that are proportionate to the conduct that you engaged in.
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
If you look back throughout the history of Broadway, there’s always been periods where writers and producers have delivered the kind of things that people want to see, while at the same time pushing the form along.
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I’m writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
I’m grateful I know what it’s like to be unemployed for long periods of time.
I don’t feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.
In the periods of my life when I’ve had least contact with the Church, I’ve always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it’s a relationship; it has good days and bad days.
We don’t look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time.
The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.
I go through periods where I feel very confident about stuff but other periods that are insecure… I find doing different stuff removes the responsibility of focussing on one thing.
Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said that they do receive good care. However, it’s getting into the system – the wait periods. We have to do something about that. The care here has been good. We’re not seeing that in other states.
I was what they call a pool hustler. That’s absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.
Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don’t, you’re not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.
High-intensity training works well for cricket because we spend long periods waiting around and then have to perform sudden sprints or dives.
Even your favorite celebrities go through tough periods and have heartbreak. They must empower themselves with healthy choices, as do you!
I don’t really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn’t.
Barcelona players know how to summon up Messi into the game, letting him rest in periods of the match and then using his services at vital moments when he shows up in the middle of the pitch to create his magical plays.
We have a two-week rule. We’re never apart for more two weeks. Just not being separated for Jurassic periods of time seems to help. And no children probably helps a lot.
There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.
I don’t see any of my records as any more or less conceptual than the others, and I don’t really plan some overall idea in advance. The songs all get written under the umbrella of a certain time in your life, and it’s natural to find themes that repeat within these periods.
Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended family and regional networks that substituted for older clan structures. But those networks have been destroyed.
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
Like life, the beauty of sports is that no two periods are identical.
You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave.
Play is under attack in our nation’s schools – and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.
Dad’s cancer experience included periods of relatively good health as well as bouts of hospitalisation as he coursed his way through a variety of different chemotherapy treatments.
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
It’s funny – when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.
They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time – that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.
I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it’s a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life – I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don’t know what’s going to happen.
I was horrified to find out that a startling percentage of women, even in Bengaluru, do not go out or wash their hair during their periods.
You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band’s development with a live record… a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package.
I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for most people, most of the time.
One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We’re much bigger than what people were in older times.
I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.
The difference between the greats and the legends is their ability to focus for longer periods of time.
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
For our veterans to have to wait long periods of time to receive care is not only unacceptable to us, but to elected officials as well.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Since he was 17 years old in Atlanta, I think people always knew that there was something different about Key. He’s obviously been able to adapt to so many sounds and time periods in his own way, which is clear from the long list of collaborators; but he has always retained an effortlessly weird perspective.
I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career.
Science is not the glamour that’s portrayed in films. It’s a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.
We have to stop using words like ‘that time of the month’ or other such variations. Say it: I have my periods. There is nothing to be shy or embarrassed about.
There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.
Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
I think it’s healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods.
America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett.
Strikers get periods like this, periods when you do everything right and others when you can’t do anything properly.
It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
