Quotes About Hours

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

Good morning, Mrs. Hudson," I called out softly, figuring that Holmes was still asleep. He often was in the mornings, as he kept odd hours—sleep was a concern of the body and of convenience, he declared, not of the clock.

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether. These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.

The wages of sin are death, but the hours are good and the perks are fantastic.

From the song, Is it love? If time helps the pain, my heart is counting the hours. And if the sun always follows the rain, My heart waits, For the end, Of the showers. If it hurts this bad, is it love?

The hours, the dedication, the obsessiveness that must have been required to do this was breathtaking. Staggering. But you walked away not so much with admiration for the artist as concern for her mental health.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

Before long her motorhome was registered and cruising south on Interstate 95. Quartzsite was less than two hours away.

The most lavish book owned by the noble classes was also one of the most ubiquitous: the Book of Hours,

Within hours, all the Iron Wolves were starting to curse inventively.

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.

My favourite vintage shop in New York is called Screaming Mimi's, and whenever I go, I'll spend three hours in there just trawling.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

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...

So whenas fortune all her spite hath shown, Some blissful hours at last must needs appear; Else would afflicted wights oft-times despair . . .

We go to sleep, and time speeds by us like starlight, whisking us hours closer to the grave. Yet sleep rejuvenates; these lost hours slow down aging and keep us young; time running fast means that Time will run slow.

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours.

Figuring out Lorne consequently became something of an obsession for many on the show. They talked about him for hours, sometimes catching themselves using Lorne's favorite words or phrases, and an acknowledgment from him was enough to keep them motivated for weeks.

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

America is the only country in the world in which employees work more hours per week than the Japanese.