I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
Charles Dickens
Related I think of Ariel, my local neighborhood mermaid, how she only had twenty-four hours to turn her life... SHANNON CELEBI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You have my heart, send me a little word, that I may go unto her and take her hands ... BJORK It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day. MILTON R. SAPIRSTEIN I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to... MICHAEL SCHENKER All the twenty-four hours, you should be in the remembrance of God. SRI SATHYA SAI BABA My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with... AMY CHUA Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hou... RVM You have my heart,send me a little word,that I may gounto her and take her handssaying 'Accept all h... BJORK I just could not take it in. Magnus was vulnerable in a way because he was hopelessly shy and had ne... FRANCIS JONES No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... J.D. ROBB Meditating, meditating in remembrance, Nanak has found peace. Twenty-four hours a day, I sing Your G... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightl... WALTER BENJAMIN No one showed up for four hours. The level of incompetence was mind-boggling. PATRICK MCCARTHY We sit and talk, and kiss away the hours as chastely as the morning dews kiss flowers: I touch her, ... THOMAS RANDOLPH One has to learn contentment, forgiveness, and purpose on her own before the universe allows her to ... BENYF Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we... ELISE BOULDING He'd been at the Glade for roughly twenty-four hours. One full day. And look at all the things that ... JAMES DASHNER She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day. JAMES PURDY There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. RAOUL VANEIGEM I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the... RANDY BACHMAN She practices all the time. In the winter she would spend hours at her hit-away, swinging hundreds o... LYNN REICHART Twenty-four hours ago, I was really optimistic about my prospects here. I'm in a little bit of shock... ANDY RODDICK A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains... CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove... CHRIS PRENTISS She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent h... ARUNDHATI ROY I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on poli... DAMBISA MOYO Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand... WILL DURANT Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand... WILL DURANT And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elde... BIBLE Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. AMBROSE BIERCE you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR What is this all about,' asked Sai, but her mouth couldn't address her ear in the tumult; her mind c... KIRAN DESAI Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA It was a little awkward walking behind his mom when, about eight hours ago, I had been rolling aroun... KATIE KACVINSKY I've known Hillary, and her husband Bill, for more than half of my life. I remember her playing ... TERRY MCAULIFFE Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Ar... MAYA ANGELOU The most ironic thing was that, the thing she valued the most was freedom. For according to her, hap... PRADNYA CHABBI I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all... JAMES JOYCE My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day. CHRISTOPHER MELONI Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. MARK TWAIN Love, Happiness, Friends, Families and God are a part of me and I will never despise them but honor ... JAIME PENZELLNA When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his s... EDWARD CARPENTER When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me ... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE The ocean asks for nothing but those
who stand by her shores
gradually attune themselves to her rhyt... CHARLES DICKENS Maybe it wasn’t rational, but she didn’t like the idea of Leo invading her little world. Yesterd... SARINA BOWEN I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me w... JOSEPH DELANEY I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alon... BOB MCNAIR Even when I was a very young man, I was looking for the purpose of life; I was looking fo... DEBASISH MRIDHA ... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run awa... GASTON LEROUX And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two how... JENNIFER DONNELLY It was tough ... on me to be honest with you. I can remember in December sitting in my house, and my... ALEX RODRIGUEZ Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secret... LISA KLEYPAS This will be triumph! this will be happiness! yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pur... JOANNA BAILLIE [Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a sma... LAWRENCE MARTIN In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of th... JAMES E. FAUST She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a l... VIRGINIA WOOLF I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I w... LUCY ROBINSON We had been working on this for several years, and Barbara came in and simplified the process. She s... BESSIE GRUWELL As human beings we never know where we are in our circle of life. Yet I know you are the one who fil... TIM ANDERSON I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... CLIVE BARKER years. I kept remembering all the times I’d teased her or called her father a fornicator or simply... NICHOLAS SPARKS The resolve rising in her soul to die with me drew me I cannot tell you how powerfully, irresistibly... HEINRICH VON KLEIST Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. MARKUS ZUSAK My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different ... ANDY BEHRMAN I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possib... ADHIR KALYAN Happiness is everywhere round here, but yet something bothers the happiness, a missing factor exists... DEBOLINA BHAWAL She was perfectly sane in streets unknown. She loved conversing with people tagged as strangers. She... DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life ... SANTOSH KALWAR Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and... MICHAEL JACKSON The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau... CHARLES DICKENS We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not... GASTON LEROUX My mother flew out to see us on April 9. She had never flown before, and that snowstorm stretched fr... ANNETTE BROWN But she had nothing. She had forbidden music. Grating her fingers in the bark, she damned the audien... VIRGINIA WOOLF She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and ... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM No one knew she cried in the night for Lyle and her lost happiness, that under that biscuit crust ex... DOROTHY ALLISON Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of ... ELIZABETH GOUDGE If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply... LUIS BUñUEL And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulu... BIBLE The thirst we shared for one another made it clear that the distraction would only come from depriva... SHAWN KIRSTEN MARAVEL The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. CHRIS PRENTISS Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, a... BIBLE It was clear to her now, Happiness was a seductive illusion. No one as fucked up as her deserved one... SOLANGE NICOLE How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make ... ALICE JAMES How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make ever... ALICE JAMES You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you ha... RANDY JACKSON This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book ... ROALD DAHL My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into ... RISA LAVIZZO-MOUREY It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. NEIL GAIMAN I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of th... MONICA BALDWIN I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of th... MONICA BALDWIN And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and str... JAMES JOYCE Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to
my Father: but go to by brethren,... BIBLE You can worship God twenty four hours a day but your destiny depends on the cards he lets you play STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH When Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," I believe he must ... SEX AND THE CITY It's definitely her dedication and her passion for it. We'll practice out here for a couple of hours... JASON BLAZEK She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she ha... LAURA JOPLIN Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance. ROY BENNETT
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