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Hour Quotes (page 23)

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped... Boris Pasternak
It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights? but before she turned away, he could swear he saw light falling on her face, the orange light just after sunset that catches a face turned to the west, watching the ocean for someone to come in on the last wave of the day, in to shore and safety. Thomas Pynchon
there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.... Rainer Maria Rilke
Francis Bacon quote: "A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have..."
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. Francis Bacon
The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. Robertson Davies
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what..."
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Winston Churchill quote: "A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it..."
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. Winston Churchill
Charles de Secondat quote: "I've never known any distress that an hour's reading didn't..."
I've never known any distress that an hour's reading didn't relieve. Charles de Secondat
Tiny emerged on deck some hours later, shaken but smiling. He said that what he had been considering love had turned out to be simple flatulence. He said he wished all his romantic problems could be solved as easily. John Steinbeck
As long as on the earth endures his life. To deal with him have full and free permission; Man's hour on earth is weakness, error, strife. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. Michael Cunningham
Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours. Chuck Palahniuk
I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within a few days to be introduced to a sister whom I have so long desired to be acquainted with. My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay, but their hospitable and cheerful dispositions lead them too much into... Jane Austen
Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas! J. R. R. Tolkien
In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal. Jean-Paul Sartre

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