Minutes Quotes - Page 9

• It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

  Angela Merkel

  Midnight, Climate Change, Five

  "Road to nowhere" by David Cronin, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2008.

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• You remember the Duke of Wellington was talking of the Battle of Waterloo when he said that it was not that the British soldiers were braver than the French soldiers. It was just that they were brave five minutes longer. And in our struggles sometimes that's all it takes-to be brave five minutes longer, to try just a little harder, to not give up on ourselves when everything seems to beg for our defeat.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Giving Up, Struggle, Talking

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• Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Waste, Negative

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• When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

  George William Russell

  Running, Men, Rivals

  "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.

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• One of the tours we had scheduled - the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was canceled at the last minute. I recommend making sure you know the numbers of your tours and destinations so you can confirm your schedule along the way. Also, though we laugh about it now, the Eiffel Tower was on strike so we couldn't go up!

  Andrea Phillips

  Halloween, Numbers, Laughing

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• Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Moving, Goal, Life Is

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• Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Airplane, Men, Feet

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• I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Names

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• Every minute that we lose will cost us great losses later that we will not be able to afford.

  Walter Model

  Loss, Cost, Able

  "Generalfeldmarschall Model Biographie" by Walter Göriltz, (p. 93), 2012.

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• The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Voting, Logic, Program

  "Viewers 'Idol'-ize This Saucy Search for a Superstar". USA Today, June 18, 2002.

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• Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

  Nick Mancuso

  Fame, Theme, Our Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.

  Joe Morgenstern

  Space, Stuff, Odyssey

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• Don't spend another minute being angry about yesterday, free him, and you free yourself.

  Larry Gelwix

  Yesterday, Free Yourself, Angry

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• It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else, you're not thinking about what's going to happen 10 minutes from now, and that's the reason why I love fighting, it's when I'm in there. I feel free, I feel like there's no other place I want t be. I can't even think of anything beyond that second. That's why I'm drawn to the fight, because I love the presence of it, where it brings me mentally, it's the purest thing for me.

  Rashad Evans

  Fighting, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?

  B. B. Warfield

  Book, Giving, Over You

  B. B. Warfield (2018). “The Religious Life of Theological Students”, p.4, CrossReach Publications via PublishDrive

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• It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Moving, Our Generation, Ideas

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• I highly recommend setting aside pockets of time during each day for solitude. You might have only five or ten minutes, but be alone and uninterrupted. And then sometime each week devote an extended time - at least one hour - to reconnect with your soul. How and when you do it is a very personal thing, but plan it because solitude doesn't happen on its own. Make it a priority in your life.

  Mac Anderson

  Priorities, Soul, Solitude

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• I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

  Colin Hay

  Careers, Erratic, Very Famous

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• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  Questlove

  New York, Secret, Tweet

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• Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.

  Lauren Slater

  Fall, Mutation, Fever

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• There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.

  Veronica Lake

  Regret, Race, Doubt

  Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”

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• Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none.

  Monique Truong

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through the measuring device the calibrator must adjust at certain points which was the delay you see -- the delay is just recalibrating for the clock moving too quickly during the 10 -- 10ths of a second before the delay -- this insures that the actual playing time during a period is exactly 20 minutes That is not an opinion -- that is science -- amazing devise quite frankly.

  Dean Lombardi

  Moving, Delay, Opinion

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• When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for what's happening right now. When I spend time with students, they tell me that they've read something in a book or heard something from a teacher that they don't think they're living up to. And I tell them, “Take care of yourself right now. Befriend what's happening, not just who you're supposed to be or what the world should be like. This is where you are now. So how do you care for yourself this minute?

  Bernie Glassman

  Teacher, Book, Caring

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• The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Sleep, Science

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