The Hours Quotes
People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.
What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .
The problem with human beings is that they can't sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.
What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas."
For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.
I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.
It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.
Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary!
If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.
It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.
Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.
Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.
Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.
Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed!
There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.
It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!
My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.
I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.
All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest