Minutes Quotes - Page 26

• How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

  Richard Avedon

  Children, Hate, Men

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• I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.

  Mehmet Oz

  Workout, Morning, Yoga

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• For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Yesterday, Historical, Development

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• Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

  Rick Mercer

  Government, Giving, Majority

  "Rick Mercer, Hot On The Canadian Campaign Trail". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 23, 2011.

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• A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Dust, Two, Drawing

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• A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Smile, Laughing, Joy

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press

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• I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

  Allison Pearson

  Believe, Men, Want

  "Irrational. Contradictory. Mad" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Morning, Past

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

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• I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

  Hillary Clinton

  Feels

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• News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Thinking, Shadow, News

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• The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Care, Bureaucracy

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• Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.

  Lou Gerstner

  Coffee, Two, Lunch

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• The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Water, Feelings, Doing You

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don't have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription: Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer? Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Thinking, Role Models

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• My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  Carl Honore

  Children, Race, Hands

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• The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, War, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.281, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• Now, I'm not against sex before marriage, but two minutes before? When the organist played "Here Comes the Bride".

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

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• A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Hard Times, Winning

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• Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Cry, Hours

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• Do not get up immediately at the end of the archana. The beloved deity should be brought from the seat in front of us back into our hearts and re-installed there. Seeing the form of the deity seated in the heart, meditate for a little longer. If it is possible, it is good to sing 2 or 3 kirtans. After taking an injection, a patient is asked to rest for a few minutes to let the medicine spread throughout the body. Similarly, to obtain the full benefit of the mantras, we should keep the mind calm for a while after worship.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Heart, Medicine, Meditation

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• If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Blessed, Giving

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2015). “108 Quotes On Bliss”, p.89, M A Center

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• To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

  William Cowper

  Science, Design, Signatures

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.148

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• Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Science, Love Is

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• I got a chiropractor to come along to the Patriot shoot, because they can actually stick you back together within 15 minutes. He spent a week and worked on the entire crew. All the stunt guys were like, 'Oh, fix my disc.' The guy's amazing.

  Mel Gibson

  Guy, Together, Sticks

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