Clock Quotes · Page 40

“One's perception of time was relative to one's desire for its passage.”

— Beth Fantaskey

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

— Philip Zimbardo

“Time passes, but sometimes it beats the shit out of you as it goes.”

— John Sandford

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

— Martin Heidegger

Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.

— Michael Dolan

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

— Ben Jonson

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

— Ovid

“There are no dates here. Only time passing with each moment.”

— Jay McLean

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only…

— Lord Chesterfield

Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.

— Angelus Silesius

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what…

— Jonathan Carroll

Any time a young adult book throws a girl and a guy together, the clock starts running on the countdown to the…

— Jeff Giles

I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my…

— Ridley Scott

It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and…

— David Cone

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it…

— William Faulkner

“Life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time, the Here and Now is neither now…

— Robert Scheinfeld

When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock, And the brown bee drones in the rose, And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,…

— Madison Cawein

I like the saying the every setback is a setup for a comeback. Also, "Todos los tigres son iguales" which means all…

— Tom Llamas

...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping…

— Huston Smith

You should do it against the clock. Say you are going to do 30 laps in 15 minutes. Then you try to…

— Jack LaLanne

The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't…

— Deepak Chopra

So the city [Pittsburgh] was faced with that question of "What to do now?" because it can't turn back the clock and…

— Curtis Hanson

The sound of madness is life. It's waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing…

— Barry Kerch

“Life is a comical business, and there is nothing funnier than love traveling through time.”

— Mario Puzo

“...and time thickened so that the seconds passed like years.”

— Kate Morton

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

— James Jeans

“Nothing is completely wrong, even a broken clock is right twice a day.”

— Paulo Coelho

“But promises are not clocks. You cannot tell time by a promise.”

— Anna Schmidt

I can't turn the clock back but I can seek the forgiveness of those I've wronged.

— Richard Coles

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

— Henry Ford

We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.

— Robert Mueller

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.

— James Frey

“Time passes slowly, or too fast, or it makes no difference.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Years into days. Days into hours. Hours into minutes. Minutes into moments. Moments into possibility.”

— David Levithan

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

— Peter Shaffer

I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it... so I just added "ish" to every number.

— Demetri Martin

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.

— Robert Breault

I never look at a clock. When the work's done, the work's done.

— Tom Thibodeau