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«One minute of patience, ten years of peace»
Author: Greek proverb | About: Patience, Peace | Keywords: one minute
«It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.»
Author: Jim Bishop (Writer) | About: Living | Keywords: ago, As Far, one minute, ridiculous
«The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next»
«Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer»
«A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.»
Author: Novalis (Novelist, Poet) | About: Heroism | Keywords: hang on, one minute
«Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.»
Author: Elie Wiesel (Writer) | Keywords: one minute
«Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.»
«Jesus did. I was hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next moment me livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by your leave. Look. I'm not saying that being a leper was a bowl of cherries. But it was a living. I mean, you try waving muscular suntanned limbs in people's faces demanding compassion. It's a bloody disaster.»