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Hours Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound…
- Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of…
- The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in…
- There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is…
- When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an…
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- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- My superpower is watching five hours of TV I'm not interested in because I can't reach the remote. — Nikhil Saluja
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use… — Rajneesh
- I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell… — Benito Mussolini
- One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson