Minute Quotes - page 2

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. (William Shakespeare)
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. View quote
Mark Twain
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times each day. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. (Susan B. Anthony)
My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, "Oh God, I've got to do this today.”. View quote
Richard Branson
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four. View quote
Nora Ephron
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot,for the places and people you're lucky you're not. View quote
Dr. Seuss
The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller. View quote
Alice Cooper
Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, 'Are you full inside' Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, 'I am quite full inside that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.' View quote
Charles Lamb
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. View quote
Ray Bradbury
To sum up 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. View quote
Evelyn Underhill
If someone were to prove to me- right this minute- that God, in all his luminescence, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior. (Luis Buñuel)
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves their stronger, riskier selves. View quote
Toni Morrison
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. View quote
John Keats
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. View quote
Albert Einstein
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. View quote
Thomas Aquinas