Clock Quotes
clock | November 19, 2008Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living; and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
clock | November 18, 2008One time I went to a museum where all the work in the museum had been done by children. They had all the paintings up on refrigerators.
- Steven Wright
clock | November 17, 2008There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
clock | November 16, 2008If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic, that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, 'Here comes number seventy-one!'
- Richard M. Devos
clock | November 15, 2008Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated - or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance.
- M. I. Abramowitz
clock | November 14, 2008If I get my facts wrong, let me know. If you don't like my tone, tough. At this bus stop in the blogosphere, I'm Queen Cunt of Fuck Mountain, and I'm mean for a reason. Once we get our country back on the right track, there will be plenty of time for nursery rhymes.
Melissa McEwan, March 31, 2005
clock | November 13, 2008The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
- Milton Friedman
clock | November 12, 2008He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
- Margot Asquith
clock | November 11, 2008If while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment market is glutted.
- Marguerite Emmons
clock | November 10, 2008I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.
- Sue Hubbell
clock | November 9, 2008O what a bursting out there was,
And what a blossoming,
When we had all the summer-time
And she had all the spring!
- William Butler Yeats
clock | November 8, 2008God gave us a penis and a brain, but not enough blood to use both at the same time.
- Robin Williams
clock | November 7, 2008Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
- Woodrow Wilson
clock | November 6, 2008Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.
- Frederic Bastiat
clock | November 5, 2008Freedom is a powerful animal that fights the barriers, and sometimes makes people wish for higher fences.
- Lance Morrow
clock | November 4, 2008If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
- Barack Obama, President-Elect
clock | November 3, 2008Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
- Benjamin Franklin
clock | November 2, 2008Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope ... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Robert F. Kennedy
clock | November 1, 2008$100 invested at 7% interest for 100 years will become $100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.
- Robert Anson Heinlein
clock | October 31, 2008You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
- Margaret Thatcher