Hours Quotes
5861 Hours quotes by 3651 unique authors
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You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or…
— Michael Faraday
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The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
— William James
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Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims…
— John Owen
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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and…
— John Arbuthnot
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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed…
— Albert Claude
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How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest. He is always…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for…
— Rajneesh
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Recently there's been a trend to apply the term "bullying" to any kind of conflict at work, for example overwork and long hours. Although some…
— Tim Field
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One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least one hour…
— Rajneesh
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It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the mind, it can…
— Rajneesh
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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So where did these cravings come from? I concluded it's the baby ordering in. Prenatal takeout. Even without ever being in a restaurant, fetuses develop…
— Paul Reiser
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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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Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.
— Og Mandino
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes,…
— Chris Colfer
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