Hour Quotes

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

Nice, Girl, Second

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

Life, Time, Value

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

Friend, Healing, Confusion

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Life, Nothing, Idiot

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

Good, Heart, Greatest

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
Albert Einstein

Girl, Pretty, Put

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Until, Knows

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

Strength, Nothing, Find

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

Pain, May, Place

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Everything, Talk

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Flower, Heaven, Hands

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato

Person, Play, Year

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

Future, Everyone, Whatever

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Thomas Jefferson

Die, Measured, Speeches

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller

Experience, Human, Joy

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

History, Freedom, Long

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare

Time, Through, Run

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everything, Cannot, Results

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
Erma Bombeck

Life, Women, Sex

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Until, Knows

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Benjamin Franklin

Away, Sure, Since

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, God, Face

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher

Thankful, Heart, Blessings

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
Robin Williams

Nothing, Why, Call

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Joyce Meyer

God, Morning, Sunday

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Power, Live

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.
Eminem

Down, Thoughts, Whole

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Jim Rohn

Value, Bring, Paid

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck

Work, Home, Alone

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Person, Moment

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