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“My father worked from ten to fourteen hours a day and sometimes during the night, for which he never received any extra pay. Every year that passed only increased the wretchedness of his condition and our way of living. Work as hard as he would, there seemed to be no way out for us.”
Angelo Herndon (1913–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I work a day 12 hours 40 minutes.”
Mariano Rajoy (born 1955) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 20 Minutos (3 December, 2015)
“It was not customary to receive or answer letters at such unreasonable hours.”
Balbhadra Kunwar (1789–1823) said by 1823 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We try to get more done in two hours than other teams do in two weeks.”
Bob Beatty (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dawn comes early when you wish it would not. The hours flash when you want them to drag.”
“It was the wee hours of the morning, when even the heartbeat of the world had trouble thumping on.”
“Do not be anxious about [an ordered painting] 'La Ferme' my dear Mr. Hartmann, I am anxious to establish in this picture such a decision deformed, that it may exist, independently of the caprices of the light, and of the influence of the hours of the day. I am regulating it, absolutely as a watchmaker regulates a watch after he has finished it.”
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to Mr. Hartmann, c. 1865; as quoted in The Painters of Barbizon I – Millet, Rousseau and Diaz, by John W. Mollett, B.A.; publ. Sampton Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Limited, London, 1890, p. 81
“But alas, I'm going to die! I'm a chap who...clings to life with the fingernails of both hands. One who drinks of love till it overflows his lips, But alas, I'm going to die... The other night I sat alone in agony, Listening to the hours pass, wracked with sorrow... I have arrived to face the cold border of nihility.”
Xuân Diệu (1916–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nothingness" [Hư vô], as quoted in "Shattered Identities and Contested Images: Reflections of Poetry and History in 20th-Century Vietnam" by Neil Jamieson, in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian …
“[Michael Jackson] did real damage in my overall life. I was a 12-year-old boy who was hurt by his family and ignored by people at school. Michael would sit and talk to me for hours and he would listen. Then he would get bored. The biggest thing that Michael's done to children is befriending the ones that are in need and then abandoning them”
Corey Feldman (born 1971) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Corey Feldman Slams Michael Jackson", Starpulse.com (July 23, 2008). Retrieved July 12, 2012.
“When I hit reset every 24 hours, in my mind I'm in competition with myself and whatever I did the day before, to keep topping how I did it... that's how I measure if I'm any greater in my action steps towards my greatness.”
Cha Cha (rapper) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Movie-making is not my favorite medium, because you’re on the set for 12 hours and you might only film for three minutes. It’s very much hurry up and wait. So, although I loved doing the film, it wasn’t quite what I expected.”
Helen Reddy (1941–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Soldiering has made a new man of me, regular hours and good plain food have done much to build up my strength and stamina. I feel stronger than ever.”
Pat O'Keeffe (1883–1960) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The People 9 May 1915.
“We won't give up on any opportunity to rescue the victims. More than 90 rescue workers are still working in shifts searching for people who remain unaccounted for. Even if the golden 72 hours are slipping away and there is only a 0.1 percent chance (of saving them), we will continue to search for the five (mainland) Chinese tourists who remain missing.”
Fu Kun-chi (born 1962) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fu Kun-chi (2018) cited in "Hualien magistrate vows ongoing rescue effort" on Focus Taiwan, 9 February 2018.
“We have had more than 100 hours in Committee over the past three and a half years. The reality is that, if there is anything about this arrangement that we have not now debated and thrashed to death, I would love to know what it is.”
Iain Duncan Smith (born 1954) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking during debate on ratification of Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union (22 October 2019)
“I changed the rules for allowing people to buy into my system as a franchisee. I explained in detail how tough running a Jimmy John's can be. I explained the long hours, the unforgiving weather, the late nights, the weekends, and all of the sacrifices that go along with the industry.”
Jimmy John Liautaud (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the winter on a Sunday afternoon, I can spend six hours in front of the fireplace, just looking at the flames and thinking. In the evening, I’m drunk with beautiful thoughts. My wife says to me, ‘What are you looking at?’ I say, ‘The fire.’ We have to take a step backward.”
Brunello Cucinelli (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one who works 40 hours a week will beat me in a marathon.”
Bill Rodgers (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, "I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer," that kind of Hollywood nonsense.”
John C. Reilly (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not sure, but I think I spent the last 24 hours watching the party of inclusion, diversity, understanding, and acceptance, lynch a Jew.”
Roseanne Barr (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hey Lefties ... I'm a Jew, Quit Lynching Me!" TMZ (May 31, 2018).
“[I] want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump. [Victim 1] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.”
Jeffrey Epstein (1953–2019) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Email to Ghislaine Maxwell (April 2, 2011), as cited in "Jeffrey Epstein said Trump "knew about the girls" in 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, House Democrats allege", CBS News (12 November 2025).
“Far away I've travelled To stand once more alone. And hear my memories echo Through these hills that I call home. As a child I roamed this valley, I watched the seasons come and go. I spent many hours dreaming On these hills that I call home.”
Iris DeMent (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by, It's so hard to make every note bend just right. You lay down the hours and leave not one trace But a tune for the dancing is there in it's place.”
Iris DeMent (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the workers combine in order to obtain better wages, shorter hours of labor, or similar advantages, the money-bags immediately decry it as "conspiracy", which must be prevented. ... When the workers organize politically, it is denounced as resistance to the "divine" order of things.”
Johann Most (1846–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the bourgeoisie, by means of its capital, completely monopolizes all new inventions, every new machine, instead of shortening the hours of labor and enhancing the prosperity and happiness of all, causes, on the contrary, dismissal from employment for some, reduction of wages for others and an increased and intensified state of misery for the entire proletariat.”
Johann Most (1846–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The candyfloss of outrage we've had over the last 24 hours, which I think is almost entirely confected, is from people who never wanted to leave the European Union”
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: Next week 'only opportunity' to act on no deal BBC News (29 August 2019).
“I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising... If I were like everyone else, I would have continued on and not seen this crisis. (if her brain worked differently, she explained) I wouldn’t be able to sit for hours and read things I’m interested in.”
Greta Thunberg (born 2003) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Me: “I don’t think billionaires should concentrate wealth while employing people who are sleeping in cars working a zillion hours to survive.” Next day: “That will be TEN PINOCCHIOS to Ocasio, ‘zillion’ is not a number and I found someone who sleeps in a tent, not a car.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post, (22 January 2019)
“I really wish people would pay less attention to the tweets I spend 30 seconds writing and a little more attention to the video that I spent, you know, hundreds of hours making.”
Natalie Wynn (born 1988) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Canceling, published 2020-01-02
“And so the confrontation begins, as I anticipated just hours ago. Maduro expels US diplomats, they refuse to leave. If he tries to force them out, US will respond, with 'all options on the table' (military intervention). This is a total reality show, invent a reason to invade.”
Eva Golinger (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The malicious and wholly fabricated claim made by Mr. Smollett resulted in over 1,500 hours of police work that cost the city over $130,000 in police overtime... The city feels vindicated in today's ruling that he is being held accountable and that we will appropriately receive restitution for his actions.”
Jussie Smollett (born 1982) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, March 10, 2022
“In 1920 the British philosopher Bertrand Russell spent five weeks in Bolshevik Russia as a member of a Labour Party delegation. The group hoped to discover a promised land, breaking into spontaneous choruses of the Internationale and Red Flag on spying the first Red banners across the border. After twenty-four hours Russell realized that there was not much to sing about.”
Michael Burleigh (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love my work. If I didn’t, would I be able to work 16 hours a day?”
Chen Shu-chu (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't have any odd rituals -- no candles to light, no offerings to the Muse. I simply write Monday through Friday for between 6 and 8 hours like any other working stiff.”
Myla Goldberg (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kylar woke two hours before dawn and briefly wondered if death would be too high a price to pay for a full night’s sleep.”
Brent Weeks (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Faith is something I can talk about for hours, but I don't give it to you.”
Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Put some more hours in the day, God”
Lauren Jauregui (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the limits of free speech are trespassed, when it is about criminal expressions, sedition, incitement to carry out criminal offences that threaten people, such content has to be deleted from the net, and we agree that as a rule this should be possible within 24 hours.”
Heiko Maas (born 1966) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Facebook, Google, Twitter agree to delete hate speech in 24 hours: Germany, Reuters, (15 Dec 2015)
“This capitalistic system that we have to-day would not exist twenty-four hours if it were not held together by the bayonets and the clubs of the militia and police.”
Albert Parsons (1848–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The audience I play to really is the bright 14-year-old: someone who is capable of sitting still and listening and watching and feeling for even three hours. I know, as I did at that age, they'll potentially have their lives changed.”
Ian McKellen (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am appealing to all the people, gather at all central places all over the country, and prepare to welcome and assist the people's armed forces when they come into the your area. The Revolution is expected to consolidate the position of power within the next few hours. LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE OF GRENADA! LONGLIVE FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY! LET US TOGETHER BUILD A JUST GRENADA!”
Maurice Bishop (1944–1983) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Bright New Dawn", (1979)
“What’s wrong with me?” “Have you got a few hours for a basic list?”
Steve Perry (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We ... worked through the heat of the day; the sun flaming upon our heads like fire, and raising salt blisters in those parts which were not completely covered. Our feet and legs, from standing in the salt water for so many hours, soon became full of dreadful boils, which eat down in some cases to the very bone, afflicting the sufferers with great torment.”
Mary Prince (1788–1833) said by 1833 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are not learning the occult alphabet; most of us have done all that before we came here. I used to read for about three or four hours a day before I met M.H.-not as a duty, but because I liked it. When you’ve extracted all the knowledge you can out of books, then the Master appears.”
Cyril Scott (1879–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Faith, like love, does not take up only a few hours of existence, but is its soul, its constant breathing.”
Gianfranco Ravasi (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have tried, I am the first man to run (full marathon) under two hours to inspire many people, to tell people no human is limited.”
Eliud Kipchoge (born 1984) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eliud Kipchoge (2019) cited in: "Eliud Kipchoge runs sub two-hour marathon in 1:59:40, making history with first four-minute mile equivalent" in South China Morning Post, 12 October 2019.
“It has taken 65 years (after Roger Bannister) for a human being to make history in sport. I am the happiest man to run under two hours. I am here to inspire everyone that it can be done.”
Eliud Kipchoge (born 1984) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eliud Kipchoge (2019) cited in: "Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge finishes marathon in less than two hours" in Al Jazeera, 12 October 2019.
“It means a lot to Kenya, running under two hours, together we can make a beautiful world.”
Eliud Kipchoge (born 1984) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eliud Kipchoge (2019) cited in: "Eliud Kipchoge breaks two-hour marathon barrier in historic Ineos 1:59 challenge" in Independent, 12 October 2019.
“He wrote almost every word of [ Avon Old Farms school's ] newspaper, much of the yearbook and literary magazine, and performed all community-service hours in the school's eighteenth-century printshop. "Dick ran everything of a literary nature," said classmate Gilman Ordway. "He might have been the only one of us who knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life—become a writer of fiction.”
Richard Yates (1926–1992) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter 2, "A good school: 1939-1944", at p.59
“The aesthetic perfectionist, who spent hours slaving over a sentence”
Richard Yates (1926–1992) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter 8, "The world on fire: 1961-1962", at p.243, about Richard Yates.
“In contrast to such a worrying overall picture, current minister Mariastella Gelmini has accepted unbearable cuts to schools of all levels, drastically reducing not only resources but also the number of teachers and class hours. (p. 25)”
Margherita Hack (1922–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source