The Hours Quotes

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.

Life is too short to spend forty to fifty hours around people who do nothing but stress you out and make you desire to go stick your head in a blender.

I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.

It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.

And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.

In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

It took like 5 hours to complete my virgin Mary. I was raised Catholic and it seemed like a good idea.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

Here's your protection for whatever comes: Find something to be happy about every day, and every hour if possible, moment-to-moment, even if only for a few minutes.

I went to lose a jolly, Hour on the trolley, And lost my heart instead...

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

I usually go to bed pretty late but sleep a full cycle (8 hours).

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in an hour.

After an hour your power goes sour.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls

The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle And dark desperate hours that nobody sees My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain My head in my hands down on my knees

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?

Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.

People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is going to the people on top.

An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.