Minute Quotes

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The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. — H. L. Mencken
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute. — Julian Bond
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with… — Francis Parkman
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit… — Mark Twain
Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute… — Jean Paul
Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make… — Baron d'Holbach
The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather… — C. Everett Koop
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular… — William James
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude. — Denis Waitley
Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend. — Casey Wilson
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. — Dolores Huerta
There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute… — Storm Jameson
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. — M. Russell Ballard
Life is not lost -dying; life is lost minute -minute, day -dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. — Stephen Vincent Benet
999 ... I can explain it in a minute — Herman Cain
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils… — Benjamin Rush
At first, the idea of doing a 90-minute workout in a 40 degree room sounded like torture. But the sweating is exactly what I became… — Rebecca Romijn
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into… — Wallace Stegner
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest… — Lord Kelvin
Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then,… — Tom Perrotta
I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it. — Gary Speed
Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over. — Graydon Carter
When providing people with the direction and expected behaviors, you need to be alert to the fact that they will hold you accountable. People want… — Douglas Conant

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