Country People Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days!”

— Joan D. Vinge

“the clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronising the actions of men”

— David Landes

“Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it is not clock or calendar time. It has no urgency. It happens…

— Alan Watts

“more powerful than all the armies in the world is an idea whose time is come’.”

— Margaret Silf

“We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.”

— Mark Helprin

“Then a strange moment came, a moment of the kind that determines the fate of nations, because when a crowd loses its fear of…

— Salman Rushdie

“We progress a step farther, in each tick of the clock”

— Ronnie Cornelisz

“The hands of fate keep time on a heart-shaped clock.”

— Darren Shan

“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with…

— Charles Dickens

“Better than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world , and that is an idea whose time has come”

— Victor Hugo

“The day has already begun to lessen. It has shrunk considerably, but yet will still allow a goodly space of time if one rises,…

— Seneca