Clock Quotes
clock | June 30, 2009The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.
- George Washington
clock | June 29, 2009Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.
- George Lorimer
clock | June 28, 2009The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
- George J. Seidel
clock | June 27, 2009Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
- George Gordon Noel Byron
clock | June 26, 2009There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.
- Anonymous
clock | June 25, 2009Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
clock | June 24, 2009The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
- Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr.
clock | June 23, 2009Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
clock | June 22, 2009Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.
- Nina Berberova
clock | June 21, 2009You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
- Unknown
clock | June 19, 2009Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- Ambrose Bierce
clock | June 18, 2009If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
- Mildred McAfee (1900-1994); academic, served as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy.
[thanks to Joey]
clock | June 17, 2009However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
- Peter Quennell
clock | June 16, 2009When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it: always.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
clock | June 15, 2009History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
- Mark Yost
clock | June 14, 2009The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson
clock | June 13, 2009The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn
- A. Toffler
clock | June 12, 2009There is nothing good about blindly abiding to certain paradigms, simply because you were instructed by authoritative figures from the stages of infancy to do so ...
- Vanesh Naidoo
clock | June 11, 2009Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy