Hour Before Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.
— Adelaide Crapsey
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The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying…
— Isabella Beeton
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I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
— Horatio Nelson
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Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with…
— Benjamin Franklin
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In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more…
— Eugene V. Debs
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I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do…
— Alan Shepard
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I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me.…
— David Brainerd
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This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity.
— Gideon Gono
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One night I was in the players' parking lot at the Fleet Center in my Celtics warm-ups about a half hour before a game, waiting…
— Chris Herren
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Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to…
— Michael Crichton
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I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it.…
— Amanda Hocking
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I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive…
— Valentino Rossi
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Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the…
— Ray Bradbury
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Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
— Arthur Miller
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When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a…
— Louise Rennison
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They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the…
— Chris Cleave
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Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is…
— Patrick Rothfuss
Who Wrote These Hour Before Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 30 Hour Before Quotes, led by these top contributors: