Quotes with minute

  • When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
  • George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
  • When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
  • Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
  • From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.
  • News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
  • A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
    As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Denis Waitley Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ben E. King One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Mark Twain A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • A. Brisbane A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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  • Robert Browning A minute's success pays the failure of years.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Walter Bagehot A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Albert Einstein An hour sitting with a pretty girl passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour. That's relativity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Camus Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Anita Roddick But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • George S. Patton Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Mark Twain Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
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  • Brooke Shields Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bo Bennett Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • John Mortimer Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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