Hour Quotes - page 64

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! (Thomas Mann)
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die. View quote
Charles Lamb
Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon. View quote
Charles Lamb
Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains. View quote
Charles Lamb
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might. View quote
Charles Lamb
To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by. View quote
Charles Lamb
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. View quote
Zig Ziglar
From the hour of the invention of printing, books, and not kings, were to rule the world. Weapons forged in the mind, keen-edged, and brighter than a sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and battle-axe. Books! lighthouses built on the sea of time! Books! by whose sorcery the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes. From their pages great souls look down in all their grandeur, undimmed by the faults and follies of earthly existence, consecrated by time. View quote
Edwin Percy Whipple
Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books. View quote
Mitch Albom
Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out. View quote
Mitch Albom
But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked towards, the life you've carefully constructed piece by piece, to come tumbling down all around you. No one is to blame, but you're left with a wound you can't heal on your own and can't believe you'll ever learn to accept, so you struggle to escape the pain. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that - a lot of time - and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory. You tough it out moment by moment, hour by hour, and after some weeks or months you begin to see signs of recovery. Slowly the wound heals into a scar. (Ryu Murakami)
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels. View quote
Jon Corzine
When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. View quote
Lewis Carroll
I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
It is better to live ten years at a thousand [miles per hour] than a thousand years at a ten. View quote
Lobão
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born. View quote
William Butler Yeats
But you don't need to waste your time worrying about the marketplace, Try to help the human race. Struggling to survive its harshest hour. View quote
Paul Simon
A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. View quote
Ray Bradbury
God on high Looks graciously on him whom triumph's hour Has made not pitiless. View quote
Aeschylus
But ancient Arrogance, or soon or late, When strikes the hour ordained by Fate, Breedeth new Arrogance, which still Revels, wild wantoner in human ill. (Aeschylus)
Few lies carry the inventor's mark, and the most prostitute enemy to truth, may spread a thousand without being known for the author: besides, as the vilest writer has his readers, so the greatest liar has his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falshood flies, and truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect: like a man, who has thought of a good repartee, when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who has found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead. View quote
Jonathan Swift
There is one essential point, wherein a political liar differs from others of the faculty; that he ought to have but a short memory, which is necessary, according to the various occasions he meets with every hour of differing from himself, and swearing to both sides of a contradiction, as he finds the persons disposed with whom he has to deal. View quote
Jonathan Swift
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment. View quote
Haile Selassie