Hour Quotes - page 3

To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart! (Frances Burney)
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Time may restore us in his course Goethes sage mind and Byrons force But where will Europes latter hour Again find Wordsworths healing power. View quote
Matthew Arnold
I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour. View quote
Richard Pryor
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone. View quote
Omar Khayyám
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. View quote
Helen Keller
Do you know what the good side of crack is If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for 1.50. You can furnish your whole house for 10.95. View quote
Chris Rock
There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored that's the time for sex. View quote
H. G. Wells
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. View quote
William Wordsworth
Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave. (William Wordsworth)
What though the radiance which was once so bright; Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour; Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find; Strength in what remains behin. View quote
William Wordsworth
Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. View quote
William Wordsworth
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting. View quote
Bob Ross
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. View quote
Erma Bombeck
I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. View quote
Victor Hugo
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. View quote
Isaac Watts
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. View quote
Lord Byron
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. View quote
Michael Ende
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. View quote
Winston Churchill
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. View quote
Walt Whitman
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. View quote
Walt Whitman
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