Clocks Quotes
149 quotes by 141 authors
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
— Emily Bronte
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of time. Time that…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here…
— Carlo Rovelli
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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
— Cyril Connolly
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined…
— William Penn
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace…
— John Zerzan
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The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no…
— Jonathan Carroll
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Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.
— Hermann Bondi
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People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.
— Caroline B. Cooney
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One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as…
— A. S. J. Tessimond
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Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both…
— Kit Williams
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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period…
— David Berlinski
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Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through…
— Dean Lombardi
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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The…
— Max Lerner
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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
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There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Who Wrote These Clocks Quotes
141 authors contributed a total of 149 Clocks Quotes, led by these top contributors: