Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Charles De Secondat
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen
For two hours the country held its breath. The anxiety was real, both for the health of Sharon the man and for the competence of Sharon the prime minister.
Nahum Barnea
The doctors told us it would be a matter of hours (before she died). But it wasn't. It was another week.
Becky Holland
If you're on a long flight, and you're incommunicado for several hours, that's not good.
Tom Mccann
There's been no indication that any kind of job action is imminent. We're basically where we were several hours ago.
Gina Ellrich
It's hard to believe that he went from fine to gone in 72 hours.
Gary Phillips
I'm in a little bit of shock right now, to be honest. I'd give anything to go back four hours right now.
Andy Roddick
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
Sidney Madwed
It's not too difficult to get that license, but in California you have to have 30 hours [of classes], and each year after that you have to have so many hours of continuing education.
William Perez
So few fairs have areas where kids can spend hours and be entertained.
Barbara Humphrey
It got to the point that within two hours of entering the building, I cannot breathe at all.
Sally Reed
That translates into notebooks that have [battery life of] 5 hours and beyond.
Keith Kressin
We were on 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. At the end of the day you're done. You're just tired. You want to go to bed.
Sanoe Lake
We can make the chemicals we've talked about, make them into drugs and make them available. It ought to take the virus out in 24 hours.
Kary Mullis
He was a very hard-working man, but he was dedicated to his family. He didn't enjoy working the long hours because it took time away from being with his family.
Sardar Raza
We should know something about one of the kids in a few hours or so.
Bryce Drew
I concluded that three hours of David Swain [in videotaped depositions] was enough for anyone.
J. Renn Olenn
Most of these people that are in these cells, 23 hours a day, are going to eventually be released, ... and they are going to come out a lot worse than how they went in.
David Levin
I drink at least five bottles of water a day and always get eight hours of sleep.
Rebecca Gayheart
I am confident that within the next 24 hours we will see a dramatic improvement.
Steven Blum
We don't have a grounds crew of three. There's 41. We built our own fences and built our own cages. We have put so many hours and blisters into this. It's going to be special.
Alex Swartz
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln
It turns out that errand was going to the Westmoreland area to buy some crack cocaine. This little boy was away from his family for 12 hours until the man that was caring for him decided to call for help.
Samantha Knapp
The building is cool now, but in four to six hours, it can heat up.
Kelly Anderson
Supposedly, Edison got by on a few hours of sleep. You hear about CEOs of companies boasting about how little sleep they get.
Paul Glovinsky
Didn't know whether he did it, but then over the course of several hours he said he did it.
John Higgins
You have to work 200 hours to help build your home. It's a hand up rather than a hand-out, it's not a giveaway.
Jennifer Wilson
We did a trailer in about two hours. We cut it in the car while driving down the New Jersey Turnpike.
Ron Galloway
If you do go to a conventional ski area, you would pay for the day usually because you spend so much effort getting there -- say $50 -- whereas with a dome, you might only pay for an hour or two hours at say $15 an hour.
Patrick Thorne
The travel is difficult. But we do have some home games. Almost all of our road games are about two hours away.
John Kocian
It's been a big 24 hours - babies and retirements and getting walloped, so it's time to have a rest.
Dean Laidley
It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.
Darby Conley
He must have gotten thousands of passwords ... all in the first hours. Afterwards, it was way too much for his system to handle.
Peter Tibbett
Each local official donated a certain amount of time, some gave and hour, some gave two hours. Ken McKay actually donated the most time.
Sharon Willard
It stays on for about an hour and a half and then goes out for a few hours. Back in October, we would get three or four hours at a time.
Jill Carroll
The grant allowed us to work more closely on the problem. Some before were only two hours long.
Pamela Rohland
Maybe even two more hours, I may not have woken up again.
Alex Burkhardt
That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
Jerry Della Femina
It could be hours, or days before the miners are rescued.
Steve Milligan
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Charles de Montesquieu
He spends 23 hours out of 24 in solitary confinement. Before he had 18 months, 24 hours every day, in solitary, and that's where he developed eye problems and got depressed.
Terry Hicks
It's possible they could breach their banks and we will only have about five hours notice.
Ron Pistoresi
I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes.
George Best
We had people out working 30 to 40 hours straight.
Rodney Michael
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
Pappy Boyington
If you have power from the grid, it's only (for) four or five hours a day.
Mark Summer
All they have to do is make a phone call and they can have 10 of us out there in a matter of hours.
Gary Myers
And the nice thing is that we're talking about modest exercise, not two hours in the gym every day.
Dallas Anderson
Maybe 24 hours at the most.
Rep. Scott Raecker
Coaching consumes you every day, 24 hours a day. And it doesn't just affect you but also your family, it can be very taxing.
Bill Bestwick
The three nights that we are closed for five hours is enough time for us to pull the equipment and clean it.
Randy Filiault
Within forty eight hours the concentration of both armies will take place on a field within view and a great battle will be fought.
John Buford
If you slept too many hours, you didn't even know it. We barely caught the tail end of it.
Stan Wasowski
We've been drifting for the last two hours here, with no real selling or real volume.
Bart Barnett
It's going to be at least 48 hours plus.
Bill Shorten
To see what can happen in a couple of hours is unbelievable.
Aaron Sparks
Dinners back then were the event of the evening ? it took several hours to eat. I guess you could say they ate enough to sink a ship.
David Kaplan
She's like my baby. If I leave her alone for a few hours, she gets angry.
Angel Acosta
He's been in La Junta two hours - that's it.
Pat Gamboa
We were out there for 3 or 3 ½ hours almost every night ... it's good for the kids to see some rewards for their work.
Joe Hamilton
When you're out fighting a fire for hours and hours with nothing to eat, nothing to drink, maybe before you left you didn't have your breakfast, its a great place for them to be able to get something.
Debbie Kolosh
It's very difficult to isolate exactly the hours spent on the investigation.
Jim Shires
Except for two hours a day I'm caught up in the enthusiasm and excitement, too. The football team has generated so much interest.
Jamie Sale
We have cut down the travel time below two hours for the Delhi-Agra stretch. This will greatly benefit tourists.
Rajiv Saxena
I feel great. It's the hardest day. Twelve and a half hours in pain.
Jordan Metzl
He is still very critical. There has been no change in his condition in the last 24 hours.
Dr Anupam Verma
I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.
Cameron Diaz
It's usually about four hours of nausea, vomiting, pain.
Sheralee Nester
They got her six hours later and were so excited to see their dog.
Chris Norrman
They took the animals (we had found) and moved them to a shelter two hours north of where we were.
Hilleary Bogley
Within three hours, we were under five feet of water.
Donald Harris
I agree with that, ... several hours a day for at least a week.
Larry Larsen
We knew what was needed within 48 hours.
Paul Moore
I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday.
Roger Bedford
Just to walk in and see everything you had and work so hard, to try to build up, be destroyed in just a matter of hours was just devastating.
Sarah Robinson
You have three hours to get it out of your system.
Howie Clark
I played almost four hours today, ... I'm very, very tired.
Rafael Nadal
We're doing in two to three hours what would normally take three or four days.
Todd Stout
I do four or five hours all the time.
Bob Baldori
We've been in the truck for 30 hours. There were people sleeping in their cars on the side of the highway.
Sharon Lee
And that's just the beginning. There's so much more that the Web site offers -- and it's all accessible 24 hours a day. We know you'll find it very helpful and even entertaining.
Pamela Burns
The winds are supposed to blow for 16-20 hours straight beginning at midnight.
Randi Shea
I'm available by appointment also if those hours don't work. I'm pretty flexible.
Jeanie Pitzenberger
Obviously we're very excited about this. When the ship's here, there's man-hours involved.
John Philbrook
It means 16 hours a day all summer, and weekends are the busiest.
Tom Fischer
We have to go through them. There's hours of work left to do.
Sgt. Shawn Delaney
Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.
Aron Ralston
Everyone in town is adjusting prices every two hours now.
Mike Barnes
People should rest for at least 20 minutes every two hours or every 200km.
Collen Msibi
That's precisely why, when you read any disaster kit, it says you should have enough supplies for 72 hours.
Frances Marine
I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.
Phyllis Diller
Have a chance during the coming hours to lay down their weapons and surrender.
Hazem Sha'alan
It has eliminated a tremendous amount of man hours.
Domenic Alfonzetti
What a difference 24 hours would have made.
Christopher Myers
An entrepreneur is someone who would rather work 16 hours a day for him or herself than eight hours a day for someone else.
John Wertz
The deadline was put back by 48 hours.
Noureddine Mezni
I believe in my heart of hearts that we're very close to a resolution. If not 24, certainly 48 hours.
George Speight
It was all very controlled, but informal. We were there a couple of hours. They were able to eat, to talk to us and to interact. We had pretty much decided by then we were going to adopt them.
Nancy Bennett
They told me last night that they were coming to me on the first play. I'd been dreaming about it for 24 hours.
Ottowa Anderson
He put in more hours practicing than any player I have ever coached. He chose to make sacrifices to play the game.
Steve Strand
Those 3-4 hours, you're exhausted, she's exhausted, you don't know what else to do.
Crystal Jaskula
In the Wee Small Hours.
Bing Crosby
I often leave work anywhere up to five hours late.
Karen Roberts
If kids are going to be on campus six hours a day, let's be responsible about what we give them.
Maria Shriver
No post offices are extending their hours beyond the normal time.
Bob Boisselle
We're giving people 48 hours to make a decision.
Patrick Quinn
You have thousands and thousands of people waiting in line for hours, ... Here we are, able bodies. ... Let us help.
Kevin Burns
We expect that the difficulties that are appearing now can be resolved in the coming hours before the deadline.
Amadeu Altafaj Tardio
A couple of hours talking to travel agents can save you a lot of headaches down the road.
James Ashurst
Actually, it's a pretty good deal. For most people, $25 is a very cheap price to get home hours and hours sooner.
Randy Petersen
Unless there's some intervention in the next few hours, the deportation may actually play out.
Sam Synard
This may be a coincidence, but the last 48 hours have been relatively calm.
Dcp Shields
A lot of being creative means going and doing it, putting in eight hours a day.
Alex Kapranos
We were able to continue filtering for a number of hours afterward. But we didn't have sufficient generator capacity to backwash our filters.
Steve Marshall
I think he is wired 24 hours a day. There's no downtime for Bernie.
Joe Stellmacher
I know it was difficult for her. I was gone 12 hours a day.
Derek Parra
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
We have had 6,000 hits in the first 24 hours. I'm a Kylie fan, but I'm finding there is a whole other level of fan.
Stephen Ryan
There are names in the hat and I think the next 48 hours are critical in hoping the top names I want decide to come to Edinburgh.
Matthew Turnbull
Contractors are not ecstatic about putting their labor hours and [other direct costs] into the EVM system.
Norman Enger
You could talk about this for hours and you would come up with different names, a different list, every 30 minutes.
Paul Rodriguez
He knows the long hours I can get into, especially when we're on the road a lot during the week.
Dave Mccaulley
I cut him down and sat with him for a couple of hours. The look on his face was just unbelievable, but in my heart, I'm happy for him because he will never have to go through that pain.
Savvas Halikas
Liz is a girl who is going to be there for hours, ... No. 3 singles typically will go on forever, and she's willing to do that. She will stroke forever.
Jamie Graham
Nurses are with patients 10-12 hours per day giving old-fashioned care. This is a chance to say thank you to them.
Kathy Hull
A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.
James T. Kirk
We spent thousands of man hours tracking down the problem.
Mark Adams
We drove six hours for rooms that we thought would be here.
Diane Smith
There isn't much you can do as a parent in two hours though. Maybe go do grocery shopping, but that's about it.
Melissa Kenzari
The girls came out and played very hard, played well and won. We have been excited to play and had six hours with nothing to do. It is hard and I challenged them to stayed focused when they had nothing to do or no where to go.
Shelley Davis
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
T. Boone Pickens
I was on there for seven hours. It hurts the legs a bit.
Brandon Wilson
Well, you should be, ... You've been saying 'Yes' for three hours straight.
John Tracy
It can certainly change in a few hours, that's why we're monitoring storms.
Mark Goodman
It took me two hours to get here today from downtown.
Richard Fernandez
We lament, despite the efforts that were made 24 hours a day since this started, we have not been able to prevent this abominable homicide.
Jesse Chacon
If it takes me eight hours to get out of a mine, I should have eight hours of oxygen.
Dennis O'dell
You would have to evacuate at about 72 hours from landfall to have an effective evacuation.
Bill Doran
We delivered a flat-screen TV in four hours.
Robert Pazornik
You are doing 16 hours a day and trying to catch sleep when you can, and then you get a card like this. I carried this card with me, and it is going to stay with me.
Kevin Coates
A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library.
Westheimer's Discovery
For the first 72 hours, they did not do an equitable job of responding to all communities.
Joe Leonard
It was a slow and bumpy ride on the back of a snowmobile, for 2 1/2 hours or so.
Vic Workman
The detectives had me for eight hours hand cuffed.
Tony Figueredo
But as your family grows and your considerations change, I think you would find it's certainly acceptable to arrive a few hours later, or even a day later.
Paul Eisenberg
They will watch the well for 48 hours.
Chen Cheng
He worked many hours a day. I think he was a born volunteer.
Margaret Zank
They're always there, and all that time is dedicated to us. (Patterson) is getting paid, but all the extra hours, you can't put a price on that.
Creighton Boyd
Even when their symptoms got bad, it still took women 3.1 hours to get there, compared with 1.8 hours for men.
Sharon O'donnell
Tony five minutes after a race and Tony two hours after a race, like all the drivers, is two different things.
Robin Pemberton
But then in the last day, I happened to be with her two hours before Gerry got there and a lot of the talk was about Gerry and it just happened.
Sally Kirkland
I play video games 24 hours.
Phillip Wilson
The southerly is going to cause us a lot of problems in the next few hours ... we are expecting some very erratic weather conditions and it is actually going to make the firefighters' job even harder.
Rebel Talbert
I've never experienced that much excitement through eight hours of travel. We could not stop smiling.
Ben Woodside
I averaged about 10-15 hours of work a week, ... But it was more motivation for me to get in there and improve my work.
John Pickard
Utilize off hours, if you have an hour break between classes, come into the PR/LACC or find a place to review your notes.
Joanne Lewis
I'm really open to a lot of ideas, and you kind of have to be (that way) as a pilot with low hours.
Coleman Schelitzche
You've got a jury that came back in two hours with a verdict. What does that tell you?
Jimmy Schaeffler
There is no legal basis ... If this child came from anywhere else, he would have been home within 48 hours.
David Abraham
The gravitational effect of the decapitation of the regime in Baghdad 24 hours ago has rippled right up here to the north, as was the hope and the expectation of allied coalition commanders.
Brent Sadler
We can give a forecast of 'all clear' for a few hours, which is long enough to make an EVA (extravehicular activity).
Karel Schrijver
I could sit and talk to them for three hours if I have the time.
Michael Mckinney
While I was up there, I was thinking how it was hard for him (Jesus) to do it. For him to be up there three hours is amazing.
Nick Williams
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
Our people put in between 40 and 60 hours a month on their dogs.
Gary Wiegand
Being a cop was all he ever wanted to be, ... He was either at work, or he was doting on his son. He would back the car out of the driveway and play games with his boy for hours.
Paul Arnold
The rescue was the first 15 seconds of a job that lasted two hours. The fire went to two alarms.
Firefighter Michael Doda
The coming 48 hours will be a test for the Israeli government to implement its commitments.
Nabil Aburdeneh
It's one of the cultural events. They give out Olympic medals. There will be eight blocks of ice and 18 hours to compete.
Aaron Costic
Four hours from D.C. might as well be the moon.
Joann Burkholder
The key is to not sit and dither for 24 hours. Decisions about evacuating have to be made quickly.
Bill Eckert
It would have taken two hours of their time and Darren would be alive today.
Maxine Russell
We had been on the road for 10 straight hours at a crawl speed.
Patrick Mclaughlin
Without these people, it would take us years to get where we're at. Without the hours that these people have donated to us so far, we wouldn't be where we are.
Doug Sanford
Everything I do for magazine I pound out in 15 to 16 hours. I sit down at 11 a.m., get up at 1 in the morning and I'm done.
Rachael Ray
It was terrifying to receive the news that they had done so poorly in that first 24 hours.
Nicole Draper
We think so. It really depends on Daniel committing himself, we believe he's going to do that in the next 24 hours.
Peter Rohde
They are working extremely long hours often.
Richard Murray
She was gone four hours. Under the Amber Alert system, they would have already been out. She would have been found at 7:30 p.m. when she walked in that rent-a-center.
Joe Jordan
Right now, we're working longer hours than we did at the law firm.
Bree Kurihari
When I start reading a good book, I can't stop. I'll read for hours.
Natalie Davis
It's not about the present. It's about getting away. It's about 24 hours together, uninterrupted.
David Wygant
A lot of it was changing habits at school, sleep habits and being healthy again. In high school I used to get 10 or 11 hours sleep and now I'm getting 5 or 6 here.
Ted Mcmillan
We encourage, most sincerely, that Canadians donate generously in these last few hours.
Aileen Carroll
My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
Adam Baldwin
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