Top 100 Few Minutes Quotes
#1. Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.
T.D. Jakes
#2. When sleepy, meditate with your eyes open wide. Stand in place for a few minutes or do walking meditation. If it's really bad, walk briskly or walk backward, splash some water on your face. Sleepiness is something we can respond to creatively. When
Jack Kornfield
#3. Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so.
Alexander McCall Smith
#4. Witchcraft is, and was, not ... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.
Gerald Gardner
#5. So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.
Scott Simon
#6. At one point Malkin and one of his colleagues took Eichmann to the toilet. They waited outside. After a few minutes, Eichmann called out to Malkin, 'Darf ich anfangen?' ('May I begin?') Only when told yes did he begin to move his bowels.
The Eichmann Trial, page 17
Deborah E. Lipstadt
#7. On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!
Peter Roebuck
#8. I was vaguely aware that we'd been archenemies a few minutes before, and now he had me on my back on the sand.
Jennifer Echols
#9. It only takes a few minutes in the morning to use gratitude to Have A Magical Day by giving thanks for the events in your day ahead of time, but this one practice alone will change the way your entire day unfolds.
Rhonda Byrne
#10. Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later, however, he thought better of it and took four tablets of soma.
Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.
Aldous Huxley
#11. Now, can I help you with something? I'm new, but I'll do my best to figure out how to get what you need."
...
"That's good to hear, Abby, since I need your breasts for a few minutes.
Cherise Sinclair
#12. Run through those time measurements again," Aahz grumbled.
"In seconds, minutes, hours ... "
"Minutes! We've got a few minutes.
Robert Asprin
#13. Jared glanced at Dad, then back at Kami, and said, "I'll call you later."
You have never called me once in the entirety of your life, said Kami. I'll talk to you in a few minutes.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#14. Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamott
#15. I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.
Peter Bradley Adams
#16. Eragon doubted that he would ever like an Urgal, but the iron certitude of his prejudice only a few minutes before now seemed ignorant, and he could not retain it in good conscience.
Christopher Paolini
#17. Only afterward did the guilt set in
the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.
Tiffany Reisz
#18. Benji grinned back. "You're being a real asshole today, Mr. Barnes. Well done - you been practicing?" Dad smiled, obviously relaxed. "Yeah, you know, kid, a few minutes a day, you can work that muscle with the best of them.
Amy Lane
#19. We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments.
Cecelia Ahern
#20. During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.
Colin Dexter
#21. Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
Walter Annenberg
#22. I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.
Uri Geller
#23. After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.
Stephen Chbosky
#24. Yeah, you were doing a real bang-up job of it. I particularly liked the way you were bruising his fists with your face. A few minutes more and I'm sure your heart would have been on the attack ... after it was ripped from your chest. (Kat)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.
Barbara Fredrickson
#26. If you ask someone out and they say no, try it again in a few minutes wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigarette.
Rob Delaney
#27. Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen
that nearly causes bloodshed.
Vikram Seth
#28. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
Arthur Golden
#29. I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour.
Aron Ralston
#30. Did she look different? She felt different, as if she had traveled a thousand miles and a hundred lifetimes in a few short minutes.
Jennifer Beckstrand
#31. You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few brief minutes and then the wind blows away your footprints
Arlene Blum
#32. It was a few minutes before Helena could stop panting. She dared not read any further, or she'd crash through the connecting door and ravish Hastings - and she was far from sure how she felt about him.
As she was reading the manuscript of The Bride of Larkspear
Sherry Thomas
#33. A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.
Philip Pullman
#34. A few years ago, Cindy joined one of those dreadful reading groups, where unhappy, repressed middle class lesbians talk for five minutes about some novel they don't understand and then spend the rest of the evening moaning about how dreadful men are.
Nick Hornby
#35. I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.
Ed Robertson
#36. In a few minutes nobody will know what I did. Everything will be perfect again. Except for my life.
[Oscar Banks]
Pam Bachorz
#37. Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.
Nita Leland
#38. I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos.
Darynda Jones
#39. It's not that I'm vain; I simply thought I had plenty of time, so I told Vivian I'd be ready to go in a few minutes.
Nicholas Sparks
#40. Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.
Pat Williams
#41. Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.
Simon Cowell
#42. It is not easy to shut out the world, set aside a few minutes by yourself, and spend time in God's Word and prayer. But it is essential if we are to grow in our relationship with God and be strengthened for the battles ahead. Don't delay. Begin now to spend time alone with God every day.
Billy Graham
#43. I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted
my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.
Dodie Smith
#44. Mr. Grey will see you in a few minutes. Would you like a refreshment while you wait? Coffee, soda, tea ... ?" "Gravy," I say.
Fanny Merkin
#46. I live for the few minutes I can talk with a sensible human being, but every time I do, I feel worse than before.
James A. Michener
#47. I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry. When we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.
Benjamin Harrison
#48. Some of them are starting to sink now. In a few minutes, the only place they'll still be floating will be inside my mind. That's quite interesting, because if you look at it a certain way, that's where they started floating in the first place.
J.D. Salinger
#49. The normal routine... cliche
"FEW MORE SECONDS"
"FEW MORE MINUTES
Deyth Banger
#50. Slash was about my height, and he used the alignment of our bodies to his greatest advantage. I let it go on for a few minutes. Right up until he unzipped his leather pants and pulled out Mr. One Eye.
Jeaniene Frost
#51. The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier, were suffering a curious collapse into a corner, he knew not how.
Thomas Hardy
#52. Everything is true at once. Life is contradiction. We take in every lesson. We find what works. Okay, now pick up the charcoal and draw." After a few minutes,
Jandy Nelson
#53. I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.
Ruth Rendell
#54. I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
Bernie Siegel
#55. For the next few minutes, there was a thorough rehashing of the courses (That meat was delicious. The sauce was perfect. And ooh that chocolate mousse.) This was a social nicety that seemed more prevalent the higher you climbed the social ladder and the less your hostess cooked.
Amor Towles
#56. The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, 'You know what? Let's just grab lunch.'
Bill Maher
#57. A few minutes passed, and Thomas felt the long day finally catch up to him, the leaded edge of sleep
crossing over his mind. But - like a fist had shoved it in his brain and let go - a thought popped into his
head. One that he didn't expect, and he wasn't sure from where it came.
James Dashner
#58. I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.
Steve Coogan
#59. I like my baths really deep and hot. But washing everything only takes a few minutes. So I thought it would be a waste to just flush all that water away. So there was nothing else to do but take pictures of myself trying to look as horrendous as possible. Oh my, what have I started?
Ricky Gervais
#60. It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good.
Aziz Ansari
#61. Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a skillet. Put fish fingers in the skillet. Cook for a few minutes on each side.
Michael Jessimy
#62. I guess ... I just wanted to talk to someone. I wanted someone to listen to me complain and to sympathize with me for a few minutes. I wanted someone to understand how lost I felt.
Kody Keplinger
#63. I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.
Walt Whitman
#64. I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.
William Gibson
#65. An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.
John Cassavetes
#66. The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate ... Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.
Theodore Gordon
#67. Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
Bill Frist
#68. When not working, I use a lot of treatments; from ancient casero - honey, avocado, stuff like that - other times, I buy ones you leave on for a few minutes. I don't blow dry my hair ever unless for work; I'd rather go for the natural look.
Kate Del Castillo
#69. This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder."
"I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you're talking about killing him."
"I meant it the other way."
"Oh.
Gary Paulsen
#70. She wanted his strong, capable hands on her blody and those soft lips locked with hers. She wanted to be held tight and kissed until she could forget-if only for a few precious minutes-that her life as she knew it had evaporated in a cloud of smoke and flame and violence.
Melissa Cutler
#71. I feel like I'm going to die,' he says.
'Could we talk for a few minutes before you die?'
'Only if you do it quietly.'
'I met this girl last night. I need your advice.'
'Come back later.'
'No. You might be dead.
Doug MacLeod
#72. Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.
Frederick Lenz
#73. I spent a few minutes fully engrossed in the textbook, having forgotten where I was and why I was there, the highest compliment one can pay a book, I suppose.
Neve Maslakovic
#74. Alice, you're not going to get cancer from the cell phone. Especially not from a few minutes on the cell phone." "Meow." Alice sighed. "It's not that I don't trust you, Mommy, but you're not a nurse. Or a doctor. Or a scientist." "A scientist!" Noomi said, giggling. "Scientists
Rainbow Rowell
#75. For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards.
John Mole
#76. My average day on 'Leverage' starts at 5 A. M. and ends 12 to 14 hours later. An hour drive to the set and back sometimes makes the day unbearably long. You have to grab a few minutes to yourself where you can.
Gina Bellman
#77. To know what should be going on in a household: spend a few minutes with the wife, or, the husband. To know what's really going on: spend a few minutes with their kid(s).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#78. Pausing for prayerful listening, even for a few minutes, brings everything that is important back into focus.
Shelly Miller
#79. I don't believe in love at first sight, neither do you. But I know ... that sometimes it only takes a few minutes to recognize that a person is capable of breaking your heart.
Kamila Shamsie
#80. I just want to feel immaculate for a few minutes a day,
Helen Phillips
#81. Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.
Jan Garbarek
#82. Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#83. There was nothing wrong with the color. He'd call back the next day and say it was fine. He'd just needed to feel powerful for a few minutes. One of the younger hotshots had just made him feel inferior in a meeting.
Liane Moriarty
#84. When I told my mother about them, she said she had similar attacks, and that they did no harm and lasted only a few minutes. With this, I started to look forward to my occasional attacks, wondering what might happen in the next one
Oliver Sacks
#85. And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.
Dave Winfield
#86. When she got control of herself a few minutes later, she realized that in his arms she felt almost what she had in her dream, that inexpressible sense of peace and security. Of belonging, utterly.
As long as her soulmate was alive, and they were together, she would be all right.
L.J.Smith
#87. But Teatime was okay. True, after a few minutes talking to him your eyes began to water and you felt you needed to scrub your skin even on the inside, but no one was perfect, were they?
Terry Pratchett
#88. Will you please stop being an asshole for a few god-damn minutes?
Diana Rowland
#89. Sex fills a few hours of our lives yet those precious minutes count for more than months and years
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#90. I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today.
Rosa DeLauro
#91. If something cames out from your mind it doesn't matter is it in the morning so early or it's too late for example it's nigh or you are outside with friends spend few minutes and write this down you could make something incrediable.
Deyth Banger
#92. We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes.
But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.
R.A. Salvatore
#93. Take a seat, Charlie," he said. "I'll kill you in a few minutes. It'll be good for you.
Frederick Weisel
#94. After a few minutes, he asked, real quietly, if you turned into an animal, too. And I said, 'She wishes she was that cool!
Stephenie Meyer
#95. In the first place, in the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability, and I propose for a few minutes to direct your attention to this essential bodily virtue.
William Osler
#96. Wait a few minutes, our lantern will be lit, and, if you like light places, you will be satisfied.
Jules Verne
#97. Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy her curiosity. So she went to him and knelt, which shut him up.
Kristin Cashore
#98. As I walked with my arms crossed to keep warm, I felt myself going numb. How long was I gone, I wondered. A few hours? Minutes? Days? There was no way to know. Maybe I was locked in that darkness all along and just woke from my dream ... A marvelous dream.
Charles Lee
#99. steadily for a few minutes because Leah was so beautiful. She looked at herself in the mirror on her dressing table, and it seemed to her that all
Pearl S. Buck
#100. The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship
Jane Austen
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