Clocks Quotes

149 quotes by 141 authors

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
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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
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
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. — Cyril Connolly
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
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
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
Time is that which is manufactured by clocks. — Hermann Bondi
People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them. — Caroline B. Cooney
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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