To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
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GRANT ACHATZ He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
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MATT ROPER So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
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ALBERT EINSTEIN A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
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DAN AUKER A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
SOURCE UNKNOWN A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success
WILLIS REED A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
UNKNOWN We played with a lot pace and a lot of intensity and we had won the game after the first half an hou...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
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IAN WATSON And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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KATE WINSLET Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
MARK STRAND Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour a...
PAUL AUSTER If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an...
TIMOTHY F. CAHILL There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hou...
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CESAR MILLAN And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby ha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an a...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from
hour to hour.
UNKNOWN The course of management would depend upon his progress and response which is being assessed by the ...
ANUPAM VERMA The course of management would depend upon his progress and response which is being assessed by the ...
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When you sit on a red-hot cinder a ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a se...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And so I sit on the dunes in my carefully mismatched clothes, hour after hour, day after day, frozen...
BARBARA DAVIS A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home ...
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even ...
ELIZABETH MOON America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to wo...
GREG ABBOTT For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters...
VICTOR FRANKL Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour ...
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MARY MCCARTHY Pieces of me, I'm giving to you.
In the words that I say and the things that I do.
SHELLI THOMPSON For me, every hour is grace.
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OSCAR WILDE It seems to me that the idea of not recognizing the result is losing strength by the hour.
FRANCO PAVONCELLO The hours went by quickly, like the proverbial sands slipping down, down, down the center of the hou...
VICTORIA KAHLER One person comes in the morning and starts all the buses in a lot, and they idle until the drivers a...
NANCY ALDERMAN It was a good three quarters of an hour after before I could see it.
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ALBERT EINSTEIN Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
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Gin ye'll consent to be his bride,
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ADAM CLARKE The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Pr...
ADAM CLARKE And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thin...
ADAM CLARKE As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took t...
ADAM CLARKE He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
ADAM CLARKE But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is...
ADAM CLARKE Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to...
ADAM CLARKE Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he...
ADAM CLARKE To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to b...
ADAM CLARKE However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKE Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value...
ADAM CLARKE Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKE If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not...
ADAM CLARKE It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have writ...
ADAM CLARKE Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - pa...
ADAM CLARKE It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
ADAM CLARKE Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
ADAM CLARKE Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infanc...
ADAM CLARKE The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts;...
ADAM CLARKE If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts...
ADAM CLARKE Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
ADAM CLARKE We believe that with inflation rising rapidly, and concerns among the hawks that it will be harder t...
ALAN CLARKE Services performance was encouraging especially given the glimmers of hope on the domestic demand si...
ALAN CLARKE The rise in output prices confirms signs... that firms are clawing back some pricing power.
ALAN CLARKE As ever, the input price data is an energy story, and the fall in the sterling price of oil in the l...
ALAN CLARKE Overall, this reinforces signs that we have seen the worst news on UK activity.
ALAN CLARKE The worst news on UK inflation is yet to come. The probability of a further rate cut is clearly redu...
ALAN CLARKE Speculation that we will see deep interest rates is overdone. In the context of the widely anticipat...
ALAN CLARKE Clearly the departure of the most hawkish member of the committee suggests a risk of a marginally mo...
ALAN CLARKE Clearly the departure of the most hawkish member of the committee suggests a risk of a marginally mo...
ALAN CLARKE We're disappointed that our proposal didn't go through, but we're ecstatic in the fact that they did...
ALAN CLARKE I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harde...
LEWIS CLARKE As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground...
ADAM CLARKE [With 5 fabrics to choose from, consumers have the ability to buy inexpensive and lightweight cover ...
ADAM CLARKE If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE Liberty begets license.
JOHN CLARKE Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.
JOHN CLARKE Here is a fine field for talent.
JOHN CLARKE Nothing is more obnoxious than a low person raised to a high
position.
JOHN CLARKE Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.
JOHN CLARKE They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.
JOHN CLARKE