Twenty Four Quotes
162 quotes by 137 authors
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of…
— Charles Babbage
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that…
— Irving Berlin
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process…
— Tony Campolo
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something…
— Margaret Meagher
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Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for…
— Rajneesh
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Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly.…
— Walter Benjamin
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Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.
— Mark Cuban
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There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a…
— Pema Chodron
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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours.…
— Melanie Benjamin
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Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned, you are asleep as far…
— Rajneesh
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How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours;…
— Alice James
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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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He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
— Dennis Price
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Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.
— Joel Osteen
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If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is…
— Ivan Stang
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The Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving.
— Wilford Woodruff
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A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a…
— Michael Faraday
Who Wrote These Twenty Four Quotes
137 authors contributed a total of 162 Twenty Four Quotes, led by these top contributors: