Quotes of: Half-hours Keyword

The desire to know the future gnaws at our bones. That is where it started, and might have ended, years ago. I had cast the stones, seeing their faces flicker and fall: Death, Love, Murder, Treachery, Hope. We are a treacherous people - half of our s...

Blood Ties

An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete emancipation of the modern geologist from the controlling and perverting influence of theology, all-powerful at the earlier da...

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

It is of no use mincing the matter; Dr John Marsh, after being regarded by his friends at home as hopelessly unimpressible—in short, an absolute woman-hater—had found his fate on a desolate isle of the Southern seas, he had fallen—nay, let us b...

The Island Queen: Dethroned by Fire and Water: A Tale of the Southern Hemisphere

He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there. “‘How about my present?’ she demanded, half wheedling, half menacing. “Never mind that ...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

There was a stirring among the watching women. One came forward holding a chalice that was like thin leaves turned to green crystal. She paused beside the trunk of one of the spectral trees, reached up and drew down to her a branch. A slim girl with ...

Masters of Horror

What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course, this is purely an academic question and of no immediate concern to those of us existing in the world of the living, for...

Only the Deplorable

Half asleep and half awake, I became lost in a deep span of my version of a perfect world. A place I wanted so desperately to reach, but would never find except from within the catacombs of my mind. A place where the sun rose in the west and set in t...

The Tomorrows

Anne, look here. Can’t we be good friends?” For a moment Anne hesitated. She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert’s hazel eyes was something that was very go...

L.M. Montgomery

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

I shall yield a rifle of fury, loaded with the justice of time and the raging storm of my soul!

The Crossing Hour

I have no hankerin’ for thrills if needs be sought in the heavens. I shall keep my feet firmly planted in contentment.

The Crossing Hour

If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls -

Collected Poems

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Dance Dance Dance

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

Darkest Hour

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

Every Man Dies Alone

Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

Frozen Fire

Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?

The Girl Behind the Painted Smile: My battle with the bottle

And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else

The Golden Lily

As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, or hours; they are equal in value. Then what is wanted is a unit of value to reckon by.

The God of the Machine

An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.

Ghost Town