Irregular Quotations

If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.

Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

The doctor heard my heartbeat and found out I had an irregular heartbeat. I was not symptomatic or aware of my symptoms. I had no idea that this could make me five times more likely to have a stroke than somebody who doesn't have this.

OCCASIONAL, adj. Afflicting us with greater or less frequency. That, however, is not the sense in which the word is used in the phrase "occasional verses," which are verses written for an "occasion," such as an anniversary, a celebration or other event. True, they afflict us a little worse than other sorts of verse, but their name has no reference to irregular recurrence.

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

Nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction

I am sure the inquiry will wish to speak to him and anybody else who has raised similar comments. There is a great deal of speculation regarding alleged irregular payments in transfer dealings. I cannot sit here yet with irrefutable proof it doesn't happen or that it does. That's why the inquiry has been called. We don't have the power to insist Sven-Goran Eriksson sits and talks to us but having said that I would imagine he has no reason not to.

Based on our research, it appears that increases in numbers of patients at both ends of the acuity spectrum contribute to ED overcrowding. Some increased volume may be due to severely ill patients who can now be treated successfully in the ED, such as those with irregular heartbeat. At the other end of the spectrum, a growing number of less sick patients are now coming to the ED, particularly in areas without after-hours facilities. This is an access problem.

If something turns up (on the basic physical), like elevated blood pressure or an irregular heart beat, then they'll test us on the treadmill. I haven't heard of that happening to anyone on this squad, and I'd have been surprised if I'd heard it about Thomas because he seemed to be in very good shape.

He didn't make the trip because in the third period last night he was having a recurrence of an irregular heartbeat. Obviously, we're concerned about it, so we left him at home.

Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

Our reporters made initial inquiries about the adoptions, as they did about many other aspects of his background. They did so with great care, understanding the sensitivity of the issue. We have not pursued the issue after the initial inquiries, which detected nothing irregular about the adoptions.

Most cheerleaders have knee problems. I had just gotten back from the doctor about two weeks before this happened with a bruised meniscus and tendonitis in my patella. A lot of the girls on the squad have irregular cartilage and torn ligaments.

who chose to perpetuate the irregular manner of directing the sponsorship program.

We have told them what we know to be true about certain transactions and the irregular distribution of corporate funds. We have also outlined our suspicions.

Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at irregular lengths and intervals throughout our lives wherein for an all too ephemeral period, nothing in particular sucks about living.

The reception centre, funded by the British government's Department for International Development (DFID), will help the deported migrants with transportation, food rations, basic healthcare, and information on HIV/AIDS and irregular migration issues, including human trafficking and smuggling.

Various irregular forces are operating on their own. It's easy for them not to follow the higher-ups.

Earle and his staff engaged in an extraordinarily irregular and desperate attempt to contrive a viable charge

These arose from various transactions conducted through the company that were either irregular or not for fair value.

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

As regulator, Entrust takes every possible step to ensure prospective environmental bodies comply with the regulations at enrollment and our strict compliance procedures are then used to identify irregular practices thereafter so that appropriate action can be taken.

It's a thing that's been happening over the years and it's an irregular heart-beat, sometimes I perspire a lot and it (heart) tends to race a bit harder.

It's a deep, irregular cut and it was cut by some sharp, jagged object ... a jagged piece of glass or a knife. My opinion is it was most likely broken glass.

That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

(It's) irregular (and) cut in a different way.

It seems highly irregular that CNN would tolerate two employees' openly working and advising and appearing on behalf of the John Kerry for President campaign.

It was an irregular routing because of bad weather. Some people are dead because they didn't stop in Lagos.

In the hospitality industry, you are surrounded by alcohol all the time, ... There is the social aspect to it ? the winding down after a service, working irregular hours, working under high pressure ? and the culture of drinking is enormous in the UK, with an explosion of binge drinking and of young women drinking.

In 2003 the South African authorities deported 55,753 Zimbabweans without official documents. Figures for this year are likely to be higher, with 24,000 irregular Zimbabwean migrants being deported between January and March alone. Deportees are both male and female, and aged from in their teens and upwards, but the reason for deportation is always the lack of legal documentation.

By taking away the elite players from the Premiership clubs and leasing them back on an irregular basis, the solid foundation that we have created in the professional era would be weakened. The temptation would be for more clubs to go down the Northampton road and sign more players from overseas, something which would work to the detriment of the national side.

The crown of a supertall redwood has a towering, cloudy, irregular form, and the crowns of the tallest redwoods can sometimes look like the plume of exhaust from a rocket taking off.

The championship so far has been pretty irregular for Barcelona but we're hoping that the second half of the season proves more solid and we can turn a brighter cheek,