Hours quotes
988 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love."
"Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle."
"I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later."
"If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five."
"An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing."
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"For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned."
"Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune."
"If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you."
"Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude."
"Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings."
"Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours."
"Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years."
"Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible."
"Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask..."
"Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it."
"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour."
"If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again."
"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines."
"Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself."
"I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep."
"Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours"
"There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl."
"If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day."
"I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots."
"Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good."
