Clock Quotes
1056 quotes by 869 authors
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I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on…
— Anais Nin
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Kariakin-Shirov saw another theoretical battle in the 6...Bc5 Spanish, which has been one of the opening tabiyas of the event. [...] The most remarkable feature…
— Steve Giddins
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This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?
— Zig Ziglar
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When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete…
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be…
— Miles Kington
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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months,…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many other things we…
— Thomas Harriot
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I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government an…
— Neville Chamberlain
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There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They…
— Jessica Hagedorn
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God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a…
— Elif Safak
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Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely,…
— Sam Keen
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Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!
— Christos Gage
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Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn’t either.  Money loves people that have great work ethic.
— Grant Cardone
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We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
— Ralph Neas
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Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision.
— Zig Ziglar
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In time, perhaps, we will mark the memory of September 11th in stone and metal, something we can show children, as yet unborn, to help…
— George W. Bush
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The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.
— Glenn Reynolds
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The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the…
— Colonel Sanders
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