Clock Quotes
clock | June 10, 2009If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)
- Ronald Wilson Reagan
clock | June 9, 2009It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
- Psalm 127:2 Bible
clock | June 8, 2009Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | June 7, 2009I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either.
- Edward Zehr
clock | June 6, 2009If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
- Margaret Thatcher
clock | June 5, 2009Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.
- Bruce Graham
clock | June 4, 2009Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.
- C. Northcote Parkinson
clock | June 3, 2009One way to make sure everyone gets to work on time would be to have 95 parking spaces for every 100 employees.
- Michael Iapoce
clock | June 2, 2009Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
- John Ruskin
clock | May 31, 2009The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.
- Eudora Welty
clock | May 29, 2009Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
clock | May 28, 2009The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
clock | May 27, 2009None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime.
- Gail Kathleen Godwin
clock | May 26, 2009We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
- Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)
clock | May 25, 2009The human brain is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's time to turn off the sound.
- Pat Elphinstone
clock | May 24, 2009Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
- Henry Lewis Mencken
clock | May 22, 2009Although you may remain somewhere for a long time,
It is certain that you will have to leave;
Whatever may be the manner of parting,
The actual going cannot be avoided.
- Nagarjuna
clock | May 21, 2009There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
- Rebecca West