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Hours Quotes by Winston Churchill
- Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
- How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I…
- Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe…
- Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.
- Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may…
- There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill…
- We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation…
- I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon
- There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment…
- Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against…
- If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty…
- Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour…
- To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen…
- I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your…
- A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for…
- To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a…
- No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
- Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years,…
- An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling…
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- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am… — Tom Baker
- A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has… — Honore de Balzac
- I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three… — Don Adams
- I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna. — Antonio Banderas
- I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting. — Javier Bardem
- I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45… — Travis Barker
- Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch… — Travis Barker
- I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And… — Ben Barnes
- Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not… — P T Barnum