“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.” PeopleThinkingShouldWritingKindPersonsIdeasHelpingGovernmentMightJobsCertainHoursFiveFourWeekOfficeCapableAreasGood IdeasDistributionMonstrousReceiptsGovernment Jobs Author:Grace Slick
“There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.” MenHoursLosesMysteryCapableOrdinaryCharmImmortalPossessedDecayEntityUnseenDisturbingIntriguingOrdinary ThingsHimalayasAlps Author:Frank Smythe
“Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.” MenEndsHoursTalkingSubjectsCapable Author:Curt Goetz
“The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.” ThinkingNeedsHoursDangerCapableSingingUnionsDefeatCriticalSovietSoviet UnionHymnsShrinking Author:Leon Trotsky
“I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.” WritingTwoHoursComputerPagesCapableAbuseGet UpI've LearnedTake MeDelicateFoolhardyDelicate Things Author:Kate DiCamillo
“Surviving the grind of 18-hour days and getting up at four in the morning to work out for an hour so I'd have the energy to do it again the next day. I did not know I had that discipline. I did not know I had the discipline to learn a seven-page scene in three hours to shoot that day or the next day. I didn't know that I was capable of realizing that potential.” EnergyRealizingHoursMorningDisciplineSceneCapableWork OutSurvivingGrind Author:Richard Schiff
“She sat down at the table and spent a good hour talking about her husband. She told Judith how they'd met, how he relentlessly pursued her, and finished by mentioning just a hundred or two of his special qualities. The only thing the man wasn't capable of was walking on water… yet. Judith made that comment when her friend paused for breath.” MenMadeTwoWaterHoursQualityTalkingSpecialWalkingMetsHusbandCapableHundredBreathsTablesFinishedSatCommentPursuedWalking On Water Book:The Secret Source: The Secret
“Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.” WorldEndsAbleLife IsUnderstandingHoursAbilityMinutesOne DayCapableEternityGoing AwayDistractionLife Is ShortHinder Book:The Orange Girl Source: The Orange Girl
“In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.” LifeYearsLongIdeasHoursCapableLong LifeOne Hour Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)