Clock Quotes

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There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small,… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found… — Mark Twain
Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. — Rabindranath Tagore
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!â€”the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in. — Dave Beard
By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs. — George H. W. Bush
The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as… — William James
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. — Thomas Otway
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life. — James Pike
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already. — Lin Yutang
... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock. — Arthur Miller
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality,… — Lynne Truss
This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time.… — Stephen Hawking
... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it… — Charles Bukowski
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi. — Douglas Coupland
Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock… — Soren Kierkegaard
Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life. — Gu Cheng

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