Paroxysmal Quotes & Sayings

If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Whenever I meet with nutritionists, we discuss the idea of having everything in moderation and that people should eat protein or fiber when they eat sugar. — Dylan Lauren

The Lord has to break us down at the strongest part of our self-life before He can have His own way of blessing us. — James H. McConkey

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments. — Adam Sedgwick

New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs. — Michel De Certeau

He who thinks that he is finished is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons. — Henri Nouwen