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“The casual nature with which they replay the murder video at all hours of the day on tv says so much about the entire society”
Bree Newsome (born 1985) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 5/29/2020 on Twitter
“The main effects of smoking marijuana are contentment, relaxation, sedation, euphoria, and increased hunger, all peaking within five to fifteen minutes after smoking and lasting for about two hours...very high THC concentrations...can cause mild paranoia and visual and auditory distortions, but even these effects are rare and usually seen only in very inexperienced users.”
“Stimulation, in a strike, means to make that strike and through it the class struggle their religion; to make them forget all about the fact that it's for a few cents or a few hours, but to make them feel it is a "religious duty" for them to win that strike. Those two things constituted our work, to create in them a feeling of solidarity and a feeling of class-consciousness”
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here at home, the night belonged to the moon. Electricity was rationed, three hours each evening.”
Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Local Hospitality", anthologized in Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women edited by Jo Glanville (2006)
“We think we have a wonderful law in New York limiting the hours to eight, but I would like to ask you if it is common sense for democracy to allow its children to wrap caramels at $3.50 a week instead of training and educating them in industrial schools so that when they are mature they may be intelligent citizens, and when they are married become intelligent mothers.”
Rose Schneiderman (1882–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd like to be remembered as somebody who entertained — who took one out of oneself — for a few minutes, a few hours — transported you into a different venue — gave you relief, gave you entertainment, and gave you joy and laughter, and tears — all those things. I would like to be remembered as somebody who was — capable of doing that.”
Angela Lansbury (1925–2022) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Television Academy Interview (15 September 1998)
“Out in the fields there were never any restrooms. We had to go eight or ten hours without relief. If there wasn't brush or a little ditch, we were forced to wait until we got home!”
Jessie Lopez De La Cruz (1919–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that for me the problem in Parliament is 270 people. In two and a half to three hours in an afternoon, three afternoons a week somebody’s not going to be heard because it’s just physically not possible. And there’s so much work if you look at an order paper. I think that one day you should do (Twitter) spaces on how Parliament actually works? How does the business of Parliament work”
Nicola Watson (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As filmmakers, you'll see actors working on a movie. Next thing you know, they're dating. Just because it's long hours, you're remote on location, and you end up becoming close with these people. You got no other choice but to. Sometimes that can get complicated.”
Ryan Coogler (born 1986) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ryan Coogler Interview: Black Panther Wakanda Forever" in Screenrant (8 November 2022)
“Initially, it was juggling long hours working as a corporate solicitor in central London with being a mum. Eventually I left London for a regional law firm where I could enjoy a much better life balance.”
Funke Abimbola wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fifty years ago, it was utopian to dream of an eight-hour working day, as it is still a utopia to dream of a limitation of working hours in proletarian housekeeping. But utopias are invented to be realized, and as long as there is no demand for an improvement of living conditions, changing things is impossible.”
Milly Witkop (1877–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“January is the beginning of a new year for us in the Western world. Let us give to God what belongs to him: the first hours of our day, the first month of the year, the first of our increase, the first in every area of our life. It's devoted... The principle of first fruits is that when you give God the first, he governs the rest and redeems in.”
Paula White (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I had my way…we would tell the men of this country we were not going to work any more [sic], we were not going to contribute or to assist them with anything until they gave us a share in the government of the country…If this strike were possible I am willing to wager that women would be given the ballot within several hours.”
Crystal Eastman (1881–1928) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the New York Equal Franchise Association, December 1910
“Children require simple food, early hours for retiring, and abundance of sleep, as well as freedom from social and religious excitements.”
Mary Livermore (1820–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is a guilty pleasure. I am a big science fiction junkie. I love crime fiction. But sometimes you reach the decision that life is too short. I have so many hours left to me and there are other things I need to read”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those Schweinfurt missions were unbelievable. I know that I was fortunate enough to receive the Medal of Honor for fifteen minutes of fighting, over Ploesti, and they fought for about five hours over Schweinfurt. I don’t remember anyone getting a Medal of Honor out of that. I think I would rather do five Ploesti raids than one Schweinfurt.”
Leon W. Johnson (1904–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can’t get a complete history of anything in two hours – particularly the slave trade.”
Sheila Atim (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you think campaigning is easy, it’s not. It’s fun. It can be fun. But at some point when you’re spending 18 hours a day, seven days a week out on the road, it’s a grind’ and it can be”
Blanche Lincoln (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”
Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pursuit of Love (1945).
“All moms have treasured ways to spend the few precious hours they have to themselves, curling up with a book or sewing, but I mostly went to the water, the birds and the wind and the quiet were what I needed.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The slogans and the war cries from the mosque did not stop. So, in a way, every day in Kashmir after January 19 was January 19. The cries just became a little more systematic. They would begin during the night and continue till the wee hours of the morning. After a break, they would resume until late morning. Then another break and so it would go on.”
Rahul Pandita (born 1976) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rahul Pandita. Our Moon Has Blood Clots, 2013
“I’ve been a freelancer for much of my career. In 1969, I broke the story of a unit of American soldiers in Vietnam who... were ordered to attack an ordinary peasant village.. and told to kill on sight. The boys murdered, raped and mutilated for hours, with no enemy to be found.”
Seymour Hersh (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The youngest-ever black professor at Cambridge properly should have been a physical education teacher who did some after-hours tutoring. A make-believe academic who misspelled paltry as poultry in the title slide of a keynote address instead scaled the heights of Britain’s Harvard because of his skin color and his exceptionally long dreadlocks.”
John McWhorter (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All that cricket reference is nonsense. The national game of Great Britain is Association Football. Cricket was nearly dead before the war. It died of the disease of elaboration, whereby a simple two hours' game was extended to a three-days' game.”
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to F. W. Wile (1918), quoted in Reginald Pound and Geoffrey Harmsworth, Northcliffe (1959), p. 662
“It sounds all really easy, but actually I didn’t have a plan for any of this. I don’t have academics in my family, so I had no example of how this is supposed to work. It’s very difficult for me, but I’ve been really fortunate to do something I genuinely like. I can put in the extra hours, and I don’t mind doing lots of reading or teaching because I genuinely like it.”
Patricia Kingori wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We all have those roads-in-the-yellow-wood dudes –the unready loves who left us, or we left. Sometimes, in the small, shuddery hours, they come back. I think about them; I’m glad I knew them. Life is long. If you’re lucky.”
Diane Awerbuck (born 1974) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Short.Sharp.Stories anthology Fluid: interview with Diane Awerbuck, author of "The ones that got away" (24 May 2023)
“I think the worst thing I learned how to do is how to snooze my emails because I do it way too often. But whenever I haven't gotten an email in like two hours, I'll send an email to myself to make sure it works!”
Ayobola Kekere-Ekun (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I have to teach 400 level students Latin for a class of one hour, I might need to prepare for two or three hours before hand because my competence in Latin is not so high. I do not use the language every day, so I forget sometimes.”
Folake Onayemi (1964–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When someone asked Roen what he did, he explained that he typed incoherent commands that performed virtual tasks to create intangible objects. At the end of the day, Roen wasn’t sure what he did or why he did it—just that every two weeks, he received a paycheck for the hours of his life wasted, building these imaginary things on some server located somewhere.”
Wesley Chu (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some of these thoughts, expressed more clumsily than I later wished, found their way into the New Statesman leader that, as editor, I wrote barely 24 hours after the attacks.”
Peter Wilby (born 1944) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why the rich want more tax, Tory tape and the story of that leader", New Statesman (5 September 2011)
“In order to uproot all spirit of opposition I believe it is fundamental to implement a broad educational endeavor, because certain prejudices of the Western world cannot be addressed in a few hours.”
Amos Luzzatto (1928–2020) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Muslims and Jews Taking Up Pope´s Invitation to Assisi (20 November 2001) Zenit
“The AG has on several occasions engaged me at odd hours to help him build a case against A1, And I have evidence on that,”
Kennedy Agyapong (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quiet hours and long talks, awash in each other... (ch 14)”
Dorit Rabinyan (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The feedback has been Awesome. We are currently working on satisfying clients who would want to have our outfits for this season, which we are working extra hours to meet the deadlines. We also had quite a number of repost by individuals and bloggers on various social media platforms.”
Ophelia Crossland (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to wear an Olympic gold medal, like the wrestler I admire the most Jordan Burroughs. I love his style. When I was young, I used to watch his videos for hours. I want to succeed like him”
Odunayo Folasade Adekuoroye (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved watching some 48 Hours, some Dateline, I love a good whodunit just like everybody else does! Just trying to figure out how that simple piece of hair, or blood drop, or footprint can help solve a crime.”
Vivica A. Fox (born 1964) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Exclusive: Vivica A. Fox Brings Audiences Into The Interrogation Room, MOVIEWEB , 30 June 2023 by Caroline Miller
“We caught a B&O train out of St. Louis for Philadelphia, and it was just our luck that it ran five and a half hours late before we got to Philadelphia. The scenery on our trip was lost to us, because we were covered with dust and roasted too. However I did enjoy winding in and out among the mountains of West Virginia.”
James M. Sellers (1929–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, mental health is as important as the daily training, as much as the hours I have to sleep to be able to go out onto the pitch.”
Jenni Hermoso (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What means the most to me is that the efforts of so many people, who work many hours and long days, have now been recognized. After more than a decade of dedication, it gives our team a nice push to keep going".”
Elena Reygadas (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the end of the day, the life of a sportsperson is relatively short, we invest so many hours on it.”
“Obviously, you don’t see the whole 24 hours in the day, but everything you did see was me being myself.”
Ella Thomas (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“During the Victorian era in Britain, as illustrated by Oliver Twist, it was quite bleak for children in poor households. There was widespread deprivation and this meant that children were often forced to work long hours in hazardous occupations inside factories, down mines and up chimneys.”
Adenike Grange wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a man: there is nothing else, neither the journey nor the meetings count, the storm and the sun do not count, the days, the hours do not count; the meaning of things doesn't even matter, whether it shines or goes out. I am a man and that's it: beyond and beyond, with or without all this.”
Roberto Vecchioni (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not like to be fatalists, nor to believe that events are brought about by blind chance and without judgment. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years and centuries follow one another without interruption, and similarly events follow one another; everyone has their own logic, their own reason for being; every effect has its cause. (pp. 71-72)”
Ion Heliade Rădulescu (1802–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The 24 hours of which the day is made up seem to me like 24 short moments that pass quickly. This is a great comfort to me, knowing that this is the life to which the Lord has called me. (letter 9)”
Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (1838–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some walk two or three hours just to get here.”
Sherrie Silver (born 1994) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From vulnerability to visibility: The children thriving at the Sherrie Silver FoundationNews Times(June 18, 2025)
“We are all poor imbeciles (I speak for myself, of course) incapable of being good or bad for two full hours straight. (January 30; Vergani, p. 54)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This mechanism of eight hours of work every day has always produced social tensions, neuroses, depressions, illnesses and above all the precise feeling of losing the feeling of life forever.”
Silvano Agosti (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Better lick the floor" but what's horrendous in this culture is that "licking the floor" has even become an aspiration, you know? But it's monstrous that the guy has to go to work eight hours a day and he has to be grateful to those who make him lick the floor, you know?”
Silvano Agosti (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The clip was taken out of context. I was attending a show for one and a half hours...I said several things but they chose to bring a seven-seconds clip to show that we don't understand the model.”
Alice Wahome (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source