Hours Quotes

• A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

  Alan Lightman

  Machines, Conscious, Bigs

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• I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

  Michael Cunningham

  Morning, Thinking, Feelings

  "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

  Studs Terkel

  Work, Fighting, Eight

  Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.92, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• What do you get when you give a teenager $200 million? A bunch of has-beens calling you a lesbian for two hours.

  Justin Bieber

  Teenager, Two, Giving

  "Justin Bieber Apologizes, Gets Skewered at Comedy Central Roast" by Alex Stedman, variety.com. March 15, 2015.

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• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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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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• It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Men, Important, Leisure

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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Meaningful, Peace

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• For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

  Jessica Savitch

  Hard Work, Eight, Two

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

  Stephen King

  Book, Perfect, Batteries

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• Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

  Elton John

  Music, Healing, People

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.

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• Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.

  Michael Cunningham

  Years, Looks, Lasts

  "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Blessed, Years, People

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• Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Buddhist, Morning

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 18, 2015

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

  Robert Breault

  Progress, Wise Words, Minutes

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• In the late hours of the night, befriend the prayer mat.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  Prayer, Night, Late

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• I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Three, Each Day

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• Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals

  Richard J. Foster

  Years, Goal, Four

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

  Roger Federer

  Inspirational, Sports, Work

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• The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moving, Grind, Gray

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• I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.

  Clint Black

  Artist, Media, Perfect

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