Top 1200 Finest Hour Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day.

His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.

Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.

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

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

In spring when maple buds are red, We turn the clock an hour ahead; Which means, each April that arrives, We lose an hour out of our lives. Who cares? When autumn birds in flocks Fly southward, back we turn the clocks, And so regain a lovely thing That missing hour we lost in spring.

We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a song has to advance the story. Then real directors like Mike Nichols tell you where you can have 'B themes' and 'C themes', and we go oh yes, B themes and C themes! So we were taught in the finest school amongst the finest people. And also by the school of experience.

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.

Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision.

At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.

Live your life by the hour, not by the day. What will you achieve in the next hour?

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.

...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are part of life, but here we were talking about important theological, historical, gospel related, biblically centered things hour after hour after hour.

I'm fully and completely convinced that the 'Hour of Power' is a step in leading people to a fuller understanding of who Jesus is. I can't tell you how many people have watched the 'Hour of Power' and say, 'Now I feel confident to be able to go to a church'... That's what the 'Hour of Power' does.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

I don't think Donald Trump is afraid of journalists. If he was, he wouldn't be on the TV every hour on the hour.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and stressed, in which case you need an hour. I promise you, it is there. Fight tooth and nail to find time, to make it. It is our true wealth, this moment, this hour, this day.

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

I'm not an hour late. You guys were just an hour early.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

Will an hour be enough?” An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. “I’ll see what I can do,” I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes.

There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.

The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.

The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

What meaning do our lives have if we cannot set aside at least one hour a day out of 24 for thinking about God? Think how many hours we spend reading the newspaper, gossiping and doing various useless acts! Children we can definitely set aside an hour for sadhana if we really want it. That is our real wealth. If we cannot spare a whole hour at a stretch, keep apart half an hour in the morning and again in the evening.

We had to be to the stadium at six o'clock for home games, and traffic was so bad it would take us an hour and fifteen or an hour and thirty minutes to drive. So now I'm sitting in a car for almost an hour and a half and I'm very tense. I'm worried about the traffic. So I started smoking a cigar going to the games.

I always liked dancing and you'd go to class and find you had an hour acting and an hour of ballet.

The best thing is one hour of aerobics and one hour of anaerobics.

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

What is the purpose of any one workout? Enjoyment? Improvement? Coach said so? Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

I've gotten it down to one hour. If dinner takes me longer than an hour to prepare, then it is too complicated. So it has to be simple.

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'

Generating exciting new ideas burns 325 calories per hour and has no carbs. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Rambling aimlessly about a point that someone has already made burns only 3 calories per hour.

What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.

We can say, 'OK, I'm going to be in the car for an hour; what can I do to improve my quality of life during that hour?'

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?