Clock Quotes
Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
- Sharon Gold
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
- Jeff Valdez
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- Eric Hoffer
Trust also your own judgment, for it is your most reliable counselor. A man's mind has sometimes a way of telling him more than seven watchmen posted on a high tower.
- Ecclesiasticus
No thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
- Emily Dickinson
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
- Elwyn Brooks White
The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity ... When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.
- Eloise Ristad
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing left to us in a bad time.
- Elwyn Brooks White
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
- Eliezer Wiesel
It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the deserts speak of his insignificance right now.
- Edwin Way Teale
"I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul."
- Jean Couteau
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness
- Edward Stanley
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.
- Edward S. Martin
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
- Edward P. Tryon
There is a fifth dimension beyond those known to man. It is a dimension vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between the pit of his fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area called the Twilight Zone.
- Rod Serling
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
- Edward Everett Hale
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
- Edward de Bono
Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually, it loiters; but just when one has come to count on its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild, irrational gallop.
- Edith Wharton
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
- Edgard Varese