Wilkie Collins Quotes
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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
Oscar Wilde -
I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.
Artie Lange -
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
Jack Roy -
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
Helen Hunt -
...Some things...arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
Gail Godwin -
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
Honore de Balzac
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This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.
Charlotte Bronte -
The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
Charles Dickens -
The tree does not die, it waits.
Hermann Hesse -
I hope we can join eighteen other states in saying that $5.15 an hour is not enough.
Doug Jackson Ambrosia -
For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving...
Don Henley The Eagles -
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Eating toast in the shower is the ultimate multitask.
Harry Styles One Direction -
You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.
Nicholas Sparks -
If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.
John Lennon The Beatles -
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.
Walt Whitman -
Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes.
Emily Dickinson -
When I am around someone who is a joy stealer, I say to myself, I only have to deal with you for an hour. That person has to deal with thinking that way every moment of their lives.
Bonnie St. John
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I think if you were a gambler and you had a million dollars, you should have gone to Las Vegas and bet a million dollars that Tennessee and Rutgers would meet in the NCAA tournament.
C. Vivian Stringer -
If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
Sophocles -
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
Wilkie Collins