Hours Quotes - Page 19

• I count only the hours that are serene.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Serene

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1907). “The Measure of the Hours”

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• The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Justice, Doe, World

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1907). “The Measure of the Hours”

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• Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?

  David Hockney

  Sleep, Artist, Iphone

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• I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure.

  Valentino Rossi

  Race, Lucky, Too Much

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• The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dark, House, Null

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 60, 2006.

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• Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.

  William Graham Sumner

  Military, Power, Men

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “War and Other Essays”

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• It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.

  Sarah Smiley

  Morning, Moving, Soul

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• The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.

  Bear Bryant

  Summer, Twilight, Office

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• I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'... what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guy's mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he?

  Bill Hicks

  Country, Opportunity, Guy

  "Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

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• Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors

  Robert Asprin

  Couple, Reading, Two

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• Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.

  Goran Visnjic

  Jobs, Taken, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on the waterfront making sure the longshoremen didn't take too many things.

  Clint Walker

  Agency, Eight, Law

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• A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.

  Oliver Evans

  Running, Morning, New York

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• The next day, we shot 'I Want You Back,' and that was a 14-hour day. That's typical. By the end of the day, my knees and ankles are killing me.

  Grant Gustin

  Want You Back, Next Day, The End Of The Day

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• To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with.

  Robert Manne

  Children, Stress, Poor Quality

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• St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.

  Eric Milner-White

  House, Praying, Christ

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• If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

  Eric Maisel

  Thinking, Self, Anxiety

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.231, Penguin

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• Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Twilight, Heart, Shining

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1860). “Avolio: A Legend of the Island of Cos. With Poems, Lyrical, Miscellaneous, and Dramatic”, p.79

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• The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. . . . Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Character, Blood, Choices

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• Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fate, Army, Moments

  To Dr. Arnott, April 1821.

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• At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Powerful, Sleep, Long

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Jesus, Passion, Blood

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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• Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Animal, Men, Voice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1983). “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail”, p.39, U of Nebraska Press

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• Only--but this is rare--
  When a beloved hand is laid in ours,
  When, jaded with the rush and glare
  Of the interminable hours,
  Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear,
  When our world-deafen'd ear
  Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd--
  A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
  And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.
  The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain,
  And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
  A man becomes aware of his life's flow,
  And hears its winding murmur; and he sees
  The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Heart, Mean

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Fire, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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