A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time. . . Everything was touched with magic.
His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.
At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
What time is it in New York?" He shook his head. "An hour later than it is here. The earth simply has to revolve, Eve, however annoying it is for you. " "It can revolve all it wants. I just don't see why people can't settle on the same time.
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone. . . but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.
The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.
Thank god there's no 48-hour race anywhere in the world, because chances are nobody could beat Porsche in a 48 hour race. They're probably the only cars in the world that would stand up for something like that.
How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?
The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match. . . If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time. " "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.
And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.
So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.