Top 100 The Hours Quotes
#1. The busy bee has no time for sorrow. The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no
William Blake
#2. We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#3. We live most days and most of the hours of those days in a world permeated with the making and purchasing of idols.
Eugene H. Peterson
#4. That tension creates the internal stress that drives the anxiety when we are putting in the hours, but end up having nothing to show for all of that work. Myth
Nina Harrington
#5. Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.
Theodore Roosevelt
#6. I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.
David Baldacci
#7. How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.
Winston Churchill
#8. Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Lord Chesterfield
#9. I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times ... The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.
Gustave Flaubert
#11. Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!
What a task
to ask
of anything, or anyone,
yet it is ours,
and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.
Mary Oliver
#12. Oh God, you know what would be really good for me is a dog locater - it would save me the hours that I have to spend looking for my dog.
Tom Felton
#13. I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in. These things I still have, I remind myself - and shall have until I leave them.
Beryl Markham
#15. Only in the hours when the men came - husband at work, daughters at school - did the part of her body she had to offer feel more important than the part of it she lacked.
Katherine Boo
#16. I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
Abraham Verghese
#17. For every finish-line tape a runner breaks
complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras
there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.
Grete Waitz
#18. Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They'd rather show the highlight of what they've become.
Angela Duckworth
#19. Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now
in this bright, laughing moment
and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.
Clive Barker
#20. My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.
Julio Iglesias
#21. It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.
Tony Lema
#22. The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.
George Ade
#23. I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.
John Grisham
#25. Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
Cesare Pavese
#26. But for the hours of the night, I was helpless; powerless to move as a dragonfly in amber.
Diana Gabaldon
#27. Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.
Carl Sandburg
#28. And strangely fold the hours as the end draws near.
Laini Taylor
#29. I was one of the first to use the online medium as a way to talk about celebrity news in as close to real time as possible ... I was lucky to be one of the first. I also worked hard, and put in the hours - probably 16 to 17 a day.
Perez Hilton
#30. I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.
Travis Kalanick
#31. But in the hours that were really minutes, he didn't beg me not to leave. He didn't say he hadn't meant it. When I stood, his gaze just followed me up. Then I was a shattered blown-glass blue rose, and every step away from him made my shards clatter and chime.
Jodi Meadows
#32. Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.
Cormac McCarthy
#33. the clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronising the actions of men
David S. Landes
#34. It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should
a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.
Paula McLain
#35. Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Erin Dionne
#36. She was taking a round of medications, a mystical wheel, the ritualistic design of the hours and days in tablets and capsules, in colors, shapes and numbers.
Don DeLillo
#37. Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#38. We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that.
Charles Bukowski
#39. They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.
Andrea Mitchell
#40. I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.
Max Lucado
#41. Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
Dorothea Dix
#42. A scientist's accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.
Henry B. Eyring
#43. But with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other.
Robin McKinley
#44. It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.
Kaitlin Olson
#45. The hours, days, and years that had bled away in his opium haze demanded a payment from my future.
Yangsze Choo
#46. Today is unique! It has never occurred before, and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.
Charles R. Swindoll
#48. I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.
Tory Burch
#50. All I know is that the hours are long ... and constrain us to beguile them with proceedings which ... may at first sight seem reasonable, until they become a habit.
Samuel Beckett
#52. Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years ...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#53. I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#54. Who neither touched nor spoke?
whose nape, whose finger-ends
nervelessly lied the hours away?
Adrienne Rich
#55. As you're the employer of your body, the fastest way to start enjoying life begins with figuring out how to cut back the hours of stress.
K.R. Royal
#56. Time has become quiet flexible inside the library. (This is true of most places with interesting books. Sit down to read for twenty minutes, and suddenly it's dark, with no clue as to where the hours have gone.)
Ellen Klages
#57. Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don't work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it's easier to start doing what you want to do.
Tom Hodgkinson
#58. a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something special. It's like you get extra time, Rachel--the hours you spend reading and the hours your mind spends in that place, that's time that the author gives to you.
E.J. Copperman
#59. Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.
Rabindranath Tagore
#60. You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.
Elisabeth Rohm
#61. No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
Lord Byron
#62. I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.
Michael Vartan
#63. Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds
Leonora Carrington
#64. I will remember the hours of kisses our lips raw with love and how you offered me your cunt your soul your insides and how I answered offering you whatever was left of me,
Charles Bukowski
#65. When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.
Chloe Thurlow
#66. The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.
Herbert Hoover
#68. Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth's weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm'd way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#69. But in the hours since they'd saved our asses and turned the tide of the battle, I had not spotted either of my brothers amongst the living. Did not know if Cassian or Azriel had even fought on the plain.
Sarah J. Maas
#70. And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#71. Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.
Bill Bradley
#72. I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.
Cynthia Voigt
#73. O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, ... I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
William Cowper
#74. I start to move through the flat, but I can't believe I'm here. I don't know how to survive the hours until I can sleep.
Flynn Berry
#75. I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.
Jim Shepard
#76. In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull.
Alex, come back.
There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb.
Lauren Oliver
#77. Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#78. There's relief in not having to be outside. No gardening, no mowing the lawn, no tyranny of long daylight hours to fill with productive activity. We rip through summer, burning the hours and tearing up the land. Then snow comes like a bandage, and winter heals the wounds.
Jerry Dennis
#79. The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as
long as all the time before
Vernor Vinge
#80. The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.
William Blake
#81. Modeling is a way for me to continue with my sport, the hours are flexible and you can earn good money through photographic modeling and the catwalk
Leryn Franco
#82. Well, television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.
Evan Peters
#83. Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
Bart Gordon
#84. Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.
William Spencer
#85. The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.
Joe Henderson
#86. I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..
Rosamund Hodge
#87. The hours went by quickly, like the proverbial sands slipping down, down, down the center of the hourglass.
Victoria Kahler
#88. The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#89. Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining.
Casper Smart
#90. Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise.
Baha'u'llah
#91. The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#92. It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
Sydney Madwed
#93. [W]hat with the hours dedicated to the law and those given to dining out or entertaining friends at home, with an occasional evening at the Opera or the play, the life he was living had still seemed a fairly real and inevitable sort of business.
But Newport represented the escape from duty ...
Edith Wharton
#94. Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy
one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#95. But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.
Michael Cunningham
#96. Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word
My choicest hours
Are the hours I spend with You -
O God, I can't live in this world
Without remembering You
Rabia Basri
#97. On 18th September 2014, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish people. They have to decide whether to keep it, or give it away to where their minority status makes them permanently powerless and vulnerable.
Jim Sillars
#98. This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.
Lindsey Buckingham
#99. Time becomes very weird. Sometimes it seems as if the hours are rushing by in a blur, the moment of performance hurtling toward me. Other times the clock seems to poke along like a sloth with chronic fatigue syndrome.
Bruce Coville
#100. The book of the hours - Tres Riche Heures - what did it matter when I had you? ...
John Geddes
