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  • the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .

    Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.285, Scholastic Inc.
  • Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

    Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1151, Discovery House
  • Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

  • Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

    Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.100, Prabhat Prakashan
  • We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

  • Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

    "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.
  • At times the [radio telescope] records exhibited a feature characteristic of interference, occurring some time later than the passage of the two known sources. This intermittent feature was curious, and I recall saying once that we would have to investigate the origin of that interference some day. We joked that it was probably due to the faulty ignition of some farm hand returning from a date.

    Hands   Two   Records  
  • One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of our energy that is truly renewable is limited. Solar and wind are intermittent and they're so diffuse, it's difficult to harness them in a significant way. But one thing we could be doing is making it a law (like it is in Israel and Cyprus) to take every building eight stories or under and heat all of the water in those buildings with solar energy. It's absolutely simple and cheap technology.

    Source: www.today.com
  • Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.

  • Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

    Long   Feelings   May  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”
  • Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

    Art   Italian   Space  
    "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
  • The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.361, Simon and Schuster
  • The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

  • The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

  • The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

    Earth   Problem   Surface  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.

    June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.93, Basic Books
  • My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.

    Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.26, Courier Corporation
  • And the way Though discontinuous, and intermittent, sometimes Not heard of for years at a time, did, Nonetheless, move up, although, to his surprise It was inside the house, And always getting narrower.

    John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA
  • Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor is it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape - political, economic, social, even geographical - is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.

    Firefly   Dark   Light  
    Fernand Braudel (1995). “The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II”, p.901, Univ of California Press
  • Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

  • My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking”, p.26, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

    Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.229, Penguin
  • I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.

    Stars   Philosophy   Men  
    Olaf Stapledon (1975). “To the End of Time”, Macmillan Reference USA
  • The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

    Reality   Mind   Bears  
  • Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

    "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.
  • A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

    Running   Views   Long  
  • The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

  • One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like.

    Fasting   Hunger   Reason  
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