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Quotes About Hours

Being an MP is a challenging job - it's strange hours, and if you have another half, they have to be supportive. But it can be very flexible, and of course you get recesses, which I find work very well around school term times.
~ Nicky Morgan
Tsk, tsk," I said, not moving at all. "Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail. Put it down and don't be silly, Joe.
~ Raymond Chandler
They were roses, and they were saboteurs of my own long acceptance of a conventional version of Orwell and invitations to dig deeper. They were questions about who he was and who we were and where pleasure and beauty and hours with no quantifiable practical result fit into the life of someone, perhaps of anyone, who also cared about injustice and truth and human rights and how to change the world.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The second rat, of course, may have been the first rat farther uptown, in which case I am either being followed or the rat keeps the same rounds and hours I do. I think sanity, however, is the most profound moral option of our time. Two rats, then.
~ Renata Adler
No way. You won't catch Notley working weekends. Calls it the American disease, working all the hours God sends you.
~ Richard K. Morgan
I love that magazine, man - Victoria's Secret - and it comes, like, every three hours.
~ Adam Ferrara
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
~ Plautus
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.
~ William H. Macy
Being instinctively lazy, I see no point in working longer hours just to get out of debt !
~ L.G. Durand
But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.
~ Chris Moneymaker
O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.
~ Robert Frost
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
~ Robert Frost
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
~ Robert Nozick
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
~ Zig Ziglar
I was born an insomniac and that's the way I'll die, wasting thousands of hours along the way longing for unconsciousness.
~ David Benioff
I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.
~ David Ebershoff
Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door.
~ David Goodis
The most dangerous hours to be on the road are between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m., especially on weekends. Those are the hours when the drinkers are heading home from the taverns. Your risks double during these hours.
~ David L. Hough
Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
~ David M. Shoup
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
My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.
~ Samantha Bee
That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'
~ Steven Wright