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Quotes About Hours

would only point out that as a clinician, I have spent countless hours trying to find alternate explanations that would not require the major shift in my worldview that I have had to face.
~ John E. Mack
Numberless are the hours, child,' Mr. Valmont said to me soon after I entered, 'that I have employed in pondering on your welfare:—yet you are not the docile and grateful creature I expected to find you.
~ Eliza Fenwick
This pressure leads to a scarcity mindset—we believe that there will never be enough time, so we say no to changes because we feel like we don't have the hours to cultivate new positive habits.
~ B.J. Fogg
Time is a precious commodity. We all have multiple demands on our time, yet each of us has the exact same hours in a day. We can make the most of those hours by committing some of them to our spouse. If your mate's primary love language is quality time, she simply wants you, being with her, spending time.
~ Gary Chapman
In 'A Chosen Few,' I spent hours and hours listening to the pain of people of who had survived wondering why they survived and what their life means and what right do they have to survive.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Let's put it this way: I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why, exactly.
~ Janeane Garofalo
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
~ Henry Kissinger
These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.
~ Mortimer Zuckerman
I wouldn't recommend wearing tight Spandex for hours. It don't half chafe.
~ Brett Goldstein
A glib wisdom holds that people like this just don't want relationships. They have "problems with intimacy." But the salient fact is: These were relationships. In Tommy's case, in Gary's, and in several others they were relationships that lasted years. Intimacy for most of us is a condition that endures, however often repeated, for minutes or for hours. And these all had their many intimate hours. But, like all sane relationships, they also had limits.
~ Samuel R. Delany
His words brought back to her the misery of her journey home after their last meeting for the mark of the hours she had spent since she had left him had cut deeply, the wounds were raw and the memory of pain came through her happiness and she did not think she could bear to be hurt again.
~ Sara Hylton
Ms. Marin usually worked über-long hours at McManus & Tate, her Philadelphia advertising firm.
~ Sara Shepard
These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.
~ Mortimer Zuckerman
And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.
~ Karlheinz Stockhausen
A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
~ Taika Waititi
There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
~ F. Thomson Leighton
Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.
~ George Gissing
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
He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a ferry. You didn't have to think about what you had to do or where you had to go for the next few hours. It was all laid out for you.
~ Mark Haddon
The abandoned stars were hers for the many rich hours of sparkling winter nights, and, unattended, she took them in like lovers.
~ Mark Helprin
Rusty wore jeans, Fiona a long skirt that swept the ground. Dragging its flounces across the damp grass, she looked like a mediaeval lady from the rubric of an illuminated Book of Hours, a remote princess engaged in some now obsolete pastime.
~ Anthony Powell
I object to rows because my nerves are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and I am extremely lazy. I have another set of vices when I'm well, but those are the principal ones at present.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I have an affliction It's an addiction To computer solitaire I can't resist The icon's invitation There's simply no fix Black five on red six It's become My reward a Take-a-break kinda thing Black queen on red king I've spent so many many Hours of just Wasted time Red eight on black nine No way can I stay away Resistance's no use Just can't find a home for
~ John Moran
I was sleeping like a baby - waking up every three hours screaming and crapping my pants.
~ John Swartzwelder