Hours Quotes - Page 40

• In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

  Euripides

  Shining, Trouble, Command

  Euripides (1814). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.204

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• Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.

  John Milton

  Morning, Light, Hands

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.381

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• Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

  Agatha Christie

  Dog, Book, Writing

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.

  Thomas Paine

  Doors, Temptation, World

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• The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Father, Home, Character

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• [Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

  Jan Struther

  Mean, Solitude, Gardening

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Running, Reading, Class

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• Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Wind, Waiting, Silent

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “Chance”

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• Life's sunniest hours are not without
  The shadow of some lingering doubt--
  Amid its brightest joys will steal
  Spectres of evil yet to feel--
  Its warmest love is blent with fears,
  Its confidence a trembling one--
  Its smile--the harbinger of tears--
  Its hope--the change of April's sun!
  A weary lot--in mercy given,
  To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

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• The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

  Ellen Goodman

  Time, Believe, Loss

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.

  Ellen Goodman

  Fighting, Differences, Knowing

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• Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.

  Ellen Goodman

  Educational, After Hours, Television

  Ellen Goodman (1981). “Close to home”, Fawcett

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• I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.

  Diane Ackerman

  Hard Work, Writing, Thinking

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• Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

  Diane Ackerman

  Jobs, Work, Coffee

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• I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?

  Edith Pearlman

  Sentences

  "Book news and notes, June 12". www.sfgate.com. June 12, 2011.

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• I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

  Izaak Walton

  Rivers, Four, Six

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.151

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• Even as the needle that directs the hour,
  (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power
  Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole;
  Even so the wavering powers of my soul,
  Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee
  From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Soul, Secret, Wavering

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• I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

  Cindy Crawford

  Eye, Thinking, Makeup

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• All of my friends were seeing a therapist, and I thought something was wrong with me that I didn't see a therapist. So I went to a therapist to find out why I wasn't seeing a therapist. And it turns out I'm very screwed up. Thank God I found a therapist to tell me for $125 an hour.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thank God, Therapists, Found

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• It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.

  Jean Kerr

  Horse, Way, Toys

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• It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

  Edmund Burke

  Real, Heart, Character

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3681, Delphi Classics

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• My hour at last has come;
  Yet not ingloriously or passively
  I die, but first will do some valiant deed,
  Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

  Homer

  Deeds, Lasts, Firsts

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.271

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• Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

  Lucretius

  Littles, Able, Happy Hour

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• The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Men, Discovery

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• Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

  Erica Jong

  Boredom, Flying, Fifty

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.9, Penguin

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