One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry. " It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you. . . " Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.
in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.
The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to. " But then within like an hour, they were like, "You're really a writer. " "Yeah, I really am. I'm a writer, and a director, and a producer, and an actor, and a painter, and I do all that stuff in the Lush Life. " It was great.
We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.
I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
What is "martinizing" and why does it only take one hour?
The hardest gig there is in entertainment is to be the lead in an hour show, especially if it's a show that's blood and guts and fighting. It's rough. I love to work, but to do something different is really exciting.
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!
Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.