Hours Quotes - Page 24

• The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

  Wangari Maathai

  Party, Medicine, People

  "Wangari Maathai: 'You Strike The Woman...'". Priscilla Sears, "In Context" (journal), Volume 28, Spring 1991.

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• Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

  Bayard Taylor

  Dream, Fate, Sky

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.5

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• Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.

  Arnold Bennett

  Mistake, Solitude, Four

  Arnold Bennett (1910). “The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Three Acts”, New York : G.H. Doran

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• No, there are no long stages of preparation through which you must pass; all things are now ready; there is nothing to hinder you from becoming a Christian this very hour. And, if any of you have been trying to make yourself better until you are weary and discouraged in the work, all you have to do is to put it into stronger hands.

  Washington Gladden

  Christian, Hands, Long

  Washington Gladden (1876). “Being a Christian: what it Means and how to Begin”

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• I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Believe, Men, Blood

  Appeal to the military to not participate in the coup attempt, August 19, 1991.

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• Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mean, Men, Light

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Rights, Government, People

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Letters and Speeches”, p.84

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• At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

  Benito Mussolini

  Education, Children, Book

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• Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.

  William Mountford

  Prayer, Wish, Action

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.146

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• Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

  John Arbuthnot

  Men, Vices, May

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• Directing is a very all-consuming job. What you want to do there, as you're coming down the final road, is to just sit back and enjoy and let the wind flow through your hair. When you're directing, you're sitting there going, "I need to make this shot. How many hours do we have left in the day? How many hours behind are we?" You're just constantly worried about doing the job.

  David Shore

  Jobs, Hair, Wind

  Source: collider.com

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• I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.

  Will Smith

  Morning, Creating, Hustle

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

  Liev Schreiber

  Editing, Rooms, Spending

  "Q+A: Liev Schreiber". Esquire Magazine Interview with Rowan West, October, 2005.

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• I do my show half-hour a night four nights a week. I haven't seen my kids in 18 months, and I am losing calcium in my bones. Doctors say I should stop. I'm not going to.

  Stephen Colbert

  Kids, Night, Doctors

  "Stephen Colbert Enters the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2007.

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• We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

  Don Cheadle

  Couple, Giving, People

  "Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Sir Ben Kingsley Talk IRON MAN 3, the Future of the Franchise, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 23, 2013.

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• When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.

  Channing Tatum

  Book, Character, Compromise

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.

  Brett Ratner

  Two, Eight, Half

  Source: collider.com

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• I like to start my day off every morning, take the first half hour and just search my own heart, see if I'm on the right course, try to be honest with myself - am I doing this for the right reasons?

  Joel Osteen

  Morning, Heart, Trying

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, December 23, 2007.

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• Do you spend a couple of hours every day in your studio?

  Kay WalkingStick

  Couple, Studios

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• The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

  David Luiz

  Player, Piano, Consistency

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• It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.

  Andrew McDermott

  Thinking, Paint, Minutes

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• If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you're never going to win the World Cup. You've got to challenge yourself, ski the double blacks, go out when it's blowin' and snowin' as well as when it's sunny and smooth.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Winning, Challenges, World

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• I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I’ve begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb.

  Roger Angell

  Couple, Pain, Past

  "This Old Man" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. February 17 & 24, 2014.

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• To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every thought of any importance that occurs to us ; in all our admiration of external nature, to regard it as the work of His wisdom ; to take counsel with God about all our plans, that we may be able to carry them out in His name ; and even in our most mirthful hours to remember His all-seeing eye ; this is the prayer without ceasing to which we are called, and which is really the essence of true religion.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Prayer, Eye, Men

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• Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.

  Robin Sharma

  Destiny, Thinking, Years

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.241, Jaico Publishing House

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