Quote by William Dean Howells Download Open image ““Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month.”” — William Dean Howells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“Most people can’t stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“even as each minute seems to take an hour, each hour seems to fly by in a minute.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you wait for the right time and you run out of time altogether.” — Regina Sirois Copy Share Image
“Everybody gets the same hours in a day; It's really a matter of how you use them.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No time? If you do one thing a day, you will have done thirty things in a month.” — Deryn van der Tang Copy Share Image
“Waiting for somebody does that. It turns minutes to hours, hours to days, and days to several lifetimes.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“If he was not commonplace, it was through nothing remarkable in his mind, which was simply clear and practical, but through some combination of… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the… — William Dean Howells Copy Share
“Our theory of disaster, of sorrow, of affliction, borrowed from the poets and novelist, is that it is incessant; but every passage in our own lives and in the lives of others, so far as we have witnessed them, teaches us that this is false. The house of mourning is decorously darkened to the world, but within itself it is… — William Dean Howells Copy Share
Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit,… — William Dean Howells Copy Share
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
