It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid!. . . Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration. . . is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.
The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.
One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.
Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for. " (Eph. 5:16)
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.
I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that. " "You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all. " "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. I'm so sick.
What happened to you?” Jace looked affronted. “What happened to me?” Alec shook him, not lightly. “You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?” “A long one?” Jace suggested.
To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
I work out two, two and a half hours a day.
When I cook, I mean when I'm working crazy hours I always do Sunday dinner and I'm not afraid to ask for help, whether it's from Boston Market or from my friends to bring a dish. . . it's all about community and really connecting.
When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
Really if it's an hour or two after you've fallen asleep because you're in such a deep sleep at that point.
I usually go to bed pretty late but sleep a full cycle (8 hours).
Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.
Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.