Minutes Quotes - Page 3

• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  Margery Allingham

  Sad, Dust, Ties

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• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Data, Three

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Great Gatsby”, p.110, Oxford University Press

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  I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Screwtape Letters ch. 25 (1941)

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• A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

  Novalis

  Motivational, Memorial Day, Hero

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• Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

  George S. Patton

  Veterans Day, Courage, Fear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Men, Gone

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• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

  John Muir

  Song, Tree, Tragedy

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perfection, Effort, Moments

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.33, Random House

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• Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

  Ross Perot

  Motivational, Strength, Success

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• Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hero, Army, Brave

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

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• Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

  James Thurber

  Kindness, Thinking, Sixty Minutes

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.392, Library of America

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• I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

  Billy Wilder

  Funny, Eggs, Twenties

  "Fictional character: Lorraine". "Ace in the Hole", www.imdb.com. 1951.

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

  Andy Warhol

  Future, World, Fifteen

  Quoted in AndyWarhol (exhibition catalogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden) (1968). Usually quoted simply with "famous" rather than "world famous."

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• She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kids, School, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.440, Simon and Schuster

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• I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.

  Robert Harling

  Love, Friendship, Special

  Robert Harling (1988). “Steel Magnolias”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Life, Time, Dying

  "A Child Is Born". Poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benet (first presented on radio as part of the anthology program "Cavalcade of America"), December 21, 1942.

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• The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

  Wilson Mizner

  Time, Sleep, Insomnia

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• Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.

  Jessica Biel

  Skins, Periods

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• I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Long, Want, Can Not

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• The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Two, Way, Lasts

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• A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Children, Cocky

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• We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

  Scott D. Cook

  Technology, Internet Revolution, Firsts

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• Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.

  Earl Nightingale

  Enjoy Life, Life Is, Strangest Secret

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