Clock Quotes

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The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most… — Stephen Covey
Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't… — Pablo Neruda
The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains… — Ambrose Bierce
Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go the later you think you are. — Jack Handey
If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years. — Dan Halutz
Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology. — Serge Haroche
I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 oâ€™clock at night, it doesnâ€™t matter. I… — Alber Elbaz
Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do… — Anne Fadiman
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of… — Hermann Hesse
Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the… — Meriwether Lewis
It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the… — Garry Kasparov
I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as… — Picabo Street
Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with… — Sergey Belavenets
I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was… — JoBeth Williams
Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the… — Carl Sandburg
You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one — Murray Walker
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry… — Joshua Reynolds

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