Hours Quotes - Page 23

The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.

The only thing I've consistently been interested in in the last twenty-five years is writing very short texts. That continues to interest me as a project, to contain some part of reality, which is chaotic by definition, in a contained space. I like small apartments. I like getting rid of stuff. I went through my files yesterday and spent hours shredding things. It was great.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

There are exceptions to everything, but most businesses want to hire the best they can get for what they have to offer. If all they've got to offer is 15 an hour, they want the best they can get for it. They don't want the worst.

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours weekly on the net, that's just better for me.

You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.

From sitting down with West Timorese, to spending endless hours with the Afghan Taliban; to have sat with Al Qaeda after 9/11 I've always found myself crossing into the unknown - to the darker recesses.

I love learning, so it's definitely something I could see myself doing when I'm 30 or something. I always wanted to go for music production and health and psychology. But my whole life, I was in a gym for eight hours a day. I'm ready to be young and have fun.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

O Beginningless, Immortal, Timeless, Incomprehensible and Unimaginable Lord, the God of all and Creator of all creation, the Foreseer and Savior of all, as I have hoped in You, I thank You, that You have brought me to this hour, as I approach the crown of Your righteousness.

If you have to do durational work, you have to train! No bullshit. You can't do it for three months. You can do it for five hours, 10 hours, and then you have three months rest. If this is your job, you have to be flexible.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.