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“They spend billions of hours cooking, cleaning and caring for children and the elderly. Unpaid care work is the 'hidden engine' that keeps the wheels of our economies, businesses and societies moving. It is driven by women who often have little time to get an education, earn a decent living or have a say in how our societies are run, and who are therefore trapped at the bottom of the economy.”
Amitabh Behar first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in World’s billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion people, 20 January 2020, Oxfam
“But that's not what... effects your lives, your children's lives [etc.]... It is important that we understand what the Trump administration is doing. ...[I]t's not Donald personally doing this. Donald's a lazy guy. He works about 4 hours a day. ...[H]e spends one third of his time at his properties. It's the people he brought in.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[I]'ve got so much workload that [I] work about 12 hours a day. The last thing [I] want to do when [I] finish is read comics. It's like what Garth was saying. [I] work and then do something completely different. [...] It's part of the job really to keep aware of what other people are doing. But I just really haven't had the time to do anything else, anything else rather than the comic.”
Steve Dillon (1962–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They have equality in the workplace and superiority in the home. I could not perform the tasks that my wife performs. For example, to leave me with the children for anything longer that four or five hours at a time is to invite some form of disaster. It is important to understand the special position of the woman in the home and it should be retained." (April, 2005)”
Justin Barrett (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I draw inspiration from Wong Kar-wai, Majid Majidi and our very own Satyajit Ray. I learn by watching their films. Ingmar Bergman and Quentin Tarantino have also influenced me. I spend hours watching films. Even while working on my projects, I take time out to watch films. This relaxes me.”
Rima Das (born 1977) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pratidin Time Article - "I Find Stories From Life, People...": Rima Das - 19 September 2019 - Archive
“Tabitha is turning 46 but you will amazed at how she is still doing it on the road. Remember this is the lady who ran 2 hours 29 minute in the 42km distance some time back and represented Zimbabwe at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. To me, Tabitha is the best ever”
Samukeliso Moyo (born 1974) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This girl is on fire,18 February 2018
“The time-factor. I often wish there are more hours in a day. When a writer is holding, rather tightly, to a demanding job, such as teaching, raising a family and fulfilling certain social obligations, writing can easily take a backbench.”
Zaynab Alkali (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By living near your job or working near your home, you can save hundreds of hours of driving each year, giving yourself more free time to do other things (like draw cartoons). From having to walk or bike a little more, you stay in better shape and learn to be more efficient with your trips away from the house.”
Andy Singer (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time was when woman worked in the home, with her weaving, her sewing, her candle making. All that has been changed, and she can no longer regulate her own conditions and her own hours of labor. She has been driven in o the market, with no voice in the laws, and powerless to defend herself.”
Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Service for victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, New York City (April 1, 1911)
“I always loved the statues of the kouroi. I can safely say that upon viewing such statue by myself for three hours (someone let me in to look alone in museum), I was able to ejaculate without touching myself. But I had no dirty or untoward thoughts the entire time.”
Bronze Age Pervert (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[When asked how he practiced] With the door open, hoping that someone would drive down my street in a big luxurious car and hear me! [...] I was never the practitioner in the sense of 12 hours a day, but I always thought about music. I think about music all the time.”
Ahmad Jamal (1930–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had archives of everything that had happened since I hacked my governor module, but I hadn’t had as much relevant experience in that time. But what I did have were thousands of hours of category mystery media, so I had a lot of theoretical knowledge that was possibly anywhere from 60 to 70 percent inaccurate shit.”
Martha Wells (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Darkness and the fact that the whole world is asleep brings a kind of quietness, and makes time softer, neutralizing the positive vibrations of humanity that abound in daylight. It is easier then to convince myself for several hours that the solitude I must have in order to write is inviolable.”
Dorit Rabinyan (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you get all your schoolwork for the day done in, say, three hours, you can spend the rest of the time reading or making up stories or whatever else.”
Jordan Ifueko (born 1993) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jordan Ifueko Talks with Roger", The Horn Book, Inc. (April 20, 2020)
“Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.”
Ludivine Sagnier (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s a lot like packing snacks for a road trip,” she said. “A lot of granola, stuff that’s high in protein. Also, Sour Patch Kids,” she admitted. “Some of these stretches of time in the air are loooooong,” she said. “One will be about nine hours.”
Amelia Rose Earhart (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Been working so hard, I'm punching my card. Eight hours, for what? Oh, tell me what I got. I've got this feeling That time's just holding me down. I'll hit the ceiling, Or else I'll tear up this town.So now I gotta cut loose, Footloose. Kick off the Sunday shoes. Please, Louise, Pull me off of my knees. Jack, get back, Come on before we crack. Lose your blues, Everybody cut footloose.”
Kenny Loggins (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Inevitably, if you play a character for a long time, and I was researching him for six months, then shooting it for however long that was.. And you're playing them 18 hours a day every day. By osmosis, you're exchanging atoms, You become consumed or immersed [by it], that's just the way it is.”
Cillian Murphy (born 1976) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cillian Murphy: “I wasn't great craic to hang out with on the Oppenheimer set”" in GQ (2023)
“I took a good look at my life. What did I see? A bloody circus monkey! Selling most of his time on earth to another man. Out of every twenty-four hours I could only properly call mine the six when I was sleeping. What the hell is the use of that?”
Athol Fugard (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have still got women sending me the most tragic, terrible text messages and phoning me at all hours, saying "please help me, I am hiding in my basement, I didn't get on your planes in 2021 because my mother was dying, I couldn't leave at the time, but now they are after me.”
Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man was here the other day with his wife, they were very happy, they came a second time, we sat for three hours chatting and talking, and now that I hear he is gone, I am very sad. But then, what do you do? You have no choice”
Libertina Amathila (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My boss at that time said to me, 'You have one job and one job only, Kiki. It's to make sure that nobody goes 24 hours without food".”
Anita Kiki Gbeho (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have problems with my back, that’s why I walk with a stick. It is Arthritis that affects the vertebrae. You can’t bend for hours. I need to time it. I always say thanks to the Lord, despite Arthritis, He has given me good health.”
Cecilia Kadzamira (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I started with the Chevallier Group as a saleswoman in La Plaine and Pringy, then became a manager, working alongside a partner, at Petit-Port. When my daughter was born 23 years ago time. I decided to take on a role with more regular hours. After covering a few shifts in different stores, I joined the Poisy team as First Saleswoman.”
Corinne Chevallier (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time management also calls for discipline, sacrifice and making good use of leisure hours. I also learn to have a social life, in order to relax.”
Anita Erskine (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It dumped so much in such a short space of time - one town had six months' rain in six hours. That kind of thing is unpredictable up to the minute it happens.”
Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was overwhelming in the best way. We had people lined up for hours, some who have been following since the very beginning and others discovering us for the first time.”
Paige Lorenze (born 1998) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“New England! ours Art thou, as England's thine: thy children own The common parentage. Nor they alone, But wheresoe'er is heard our English tongue — World-widely flung For coming hours. Be with us then, Thou greater England! second but in time: Our age shall welcome our young giant's prime, As in his sons a father takes delight, Proud of the height Of younger men.”
William James Linton (1812–1897) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: England to America, 1876: A New-Year's Greeting (Cambridge, MA: Welch, Bigelow, & Co, University Press, 1876) sts. 16–17
“(About Mary, mother of the Lord Jesus) Loosen the bonds of our fears so that, like you, we can experience abandonment to God's will in the mundane unfolding of time and the slow agonies of the hours.”
Antonio Bello (1935–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The main problem in the Marathon is to control your mind for two hours,You have to be aware of how you are feeling, what time you are doing your splits, what are your targets, when do you break away from the group.”
Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It didn’t feel like I was improving, even though I put in the hard work, bowling five hours a day some days… but even though it doesn’t look like you’re getting the rewards at that point, over time it’s going to pay off”
Marco Jansen (born 2000) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I cried’: Duan Jansen relieved to join twin brother Marco in Proteas set-up, August 2026, by Wesley Bottom
“There is not even a hint of a smile. I am lost for words. Are you joking, I ask. He smiles, gently. No, genuinely. You could say two hours five minutes is decent, but if you compare my time with the best guys what they’re running .”
Mo Farah (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of time I turn my sail, To view the fancy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far lovelier flowers.”
Samuel Rogers (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We know only too well that there are times when everything goes wrong, but, in our haste to make the worst of life, we are apt to forget that there are also times when everything goes right.”
J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As Africans, long before the arrival of religion and [the] gospel, we had our own ways of doing things, ... Those were times that the religious people refer to as dark days but we know that, during those times, there were no orphans or old-age homes. Christianity has brought along these things.”
Jacob Zuma (born 1942) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At an event in KwaZulu-Natal, Jacob Zuma blames Christianity for South Africa's problems, The Telegraph, 21 December 2011
“We live in anti-liberal times, when individual choice is highly suspect. The driving legislative ethos is toward making all actions required or forbidden, with less and less room for human volition. Simply put, we no longer trust the idea of freedom. We can't even imagine how it would work. What a distance we have traveled from the Age of Reason to our own times.”
Lew Rockwell (born 1944) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Freedom of Association" (1 June 2010).
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
Anne Herbert (writer) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Next Whole Earth Catalog", (1980), p 331., also available at https://archive.org/details/nextwholeearthca00unse/page/331?q=%22Libraries+will+get%22 the Internet Archive (Derived from the Gilbert Shelton quote, "Dope…
“I find it hard to swallow that I have only ten times more genes than those lowly bacteria in my gut. I had always liked the fact that they have ten thousand times less DNA than I did — that felt about right — but a factor of ten was carrying democracy a bit too far.”
Gottfried Schatz (1936–2015) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jeff's view on science and scientists (Amsterdam, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, , pbk.), Ch. 3: "Me and my genome" (p. 22).
“The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.”
Christian D. Larson (1874–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People are slaves to the world, and as long as they live favorable and comfortable lives, they are loyal to religious principles. However, at hard times, the times of trials, true religious people are scarce.”
Husayn ibn Ali (626–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We think of the division of labor as being outdated, but in fact it has reemerged. In the early ‘80s, a mother was 43 times more likely than the father to leave the workplace for family responsibilities; more recently, a mom is 135 times more likely to leave the workplace for family responsibilities.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Between fifteen and nineteen, boys commit suicide at four times the rate of girls; and between twenty and twenty-four, the rate of male suicide is between five and six times that of females.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By 2015, in good economic times, boys and men were committing suicide three and a half times more often than women.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the algebra of fantasy, A times B doesn't have to equal B times A. But, once established, the equation must hold throughout the story.”
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Flat-Heeled Muse", Horn Book Magazine (1 April 1965)
“After I read a script about three times, it sinks into my head. With Harry Potter, it took about six times because it was a lot bigger.”
Daniel Radcliffe (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By making this chair five times as expensive, three times heavier, half as comfortable, and only a fraction as beautiful, an architect can make a good name for himself.”
Poul Henningsen (1894–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: cited in: Eric Reiss (2012), Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better, p. 17: About the iconic chair from Thonet.
“But you always find people telling stories about supposedly better days. You watch. A man joins a new team of soldiers, and the first thing he’ll do is talk about how wonderful his old team was. We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My parents are the shit, man. I love them. They've stuck by me forever. They made it really nice for me. I never went through any hard times. The only hard times I went through are with hoes.”
Eamon (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.”
Patrick Rothfuss (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source