Hours Quotes - Page 39

• I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.

  Maya Angelou

  Lost Love, Discipline, People

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• I count my time by times that I meet thee;
  These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons,
  And nights, these are my old moons and my new moons.
  Slow fly the hours, fast the hours flee,
  If thou art far from or art near to me:
  If thou art far, the bird's tunes are no tunes;
  If thou art near, the wintry days are Junes.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Time, Art, Moon

  RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1885). “LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,”

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• Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, War, Fighting

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• It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Dark, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.170, Wordsworth Editions

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• In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Travel, Believe, Years

  Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...”, p.345, e-artnow

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• Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Kavanagh: And Other Pieces”, p.364

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• The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Gun

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• Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

  Gloria Steinem

  Past, College, Cake

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.198, Open Road Media

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• Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.

  Jennifer James

  Hurt, Names, People

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• Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.

  Ovid

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• A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

  Isak Dinesen

  Reality, Order, Fiction

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• John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Leisure, Legs

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 230 (31 March 1778)

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• You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Giving, Ennui

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.176

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• What avails it that indulgent Heaven
  From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
  If we, ingenious to torment ourselves,
  Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
  Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares
  Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
  Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
  Serence, and master of yourself, prepare
  For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Spring, Eye, Heaven

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.116, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, School, Night

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.210

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• All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Art, Expression, Way

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.125, New Victoria Publishers

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• 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.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Real, People, Scene

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.125, New Victoria Publishers

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

  Robert Browning

  Lasts, Strikes, Last Day

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• If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?

  Judy Garland

  Lonely, Home, Order

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• No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

  John Dryden

  Death, Kings, Moments

  John Dryden, “Palamon And Arcite; Or The Knight's Tale. From Chaucer. In Three Books. Book Ii.”

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• ...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building:
  He approached the first and asked, What are you doing?
  Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks!
  He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
  The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living.
  He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing?
  The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral.
  At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?

  Bill Vaughan

  Feel Better, Men, Thinking

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• We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

  George Washington

  Children, Perfection, Evening

  George Washington (1858). “The Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts : with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.5

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• One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

  Alexander Pope

  Years, Self, Whole Year

  Alexander Pope (1776). “An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory”, p.30

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• Friends given by God in mercy and in love;
  My counsellors, my comforters, and guides;
  My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy;
  Companions of my young desires; in doubt
  My oracles; my wings in high pursuit.
  Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget
  Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours;
  Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul,
  Our faces beaming with unearthly love;--
  Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope
  Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.

  Robert Pollok

  Friends, Grief, Heart

  Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book V.”

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• Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
  And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
  There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
  The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
  A man he was to all the country dear,
  And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
  Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
  Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
  Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
  By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
  Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize.
  More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Fashion, Flower

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.69

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