Clock Quotes
clock | August 31, 2008The individual woman is required ... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.
- Jeannette Rankin
clock | August 30, 2008All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
clock | August 29, 2008Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee? Wilt thou never enjoy an affectionate and contented disposition? Wilt thou never be full and without a want of any kind, longing for nothing more, nor desiring anything, either animate or inanimate, for the enjoyment of pleasures? Nor yet desiring time wherein thou shalt have longer enjoyment, or place, or pleasant climate, or society of men with whom thou mayest live in harmony? But wilt thou be satisfied with thy present condition, and pleased with all that is about thee,…
clock | August 27, 2008I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult.
- Elwyn Brooks White
clock | August 26, 2008Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabbinic Saying
clock | August 25, 2008Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde
clock | August 24, 2008The way you explore complex ecosystems is you try lots of things and you hope that everybody who fails, fails informatively.
- Clay Shirky
clock | August 23, 2008It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen
clock | August 22, 2008Egotism, n. Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
- Ambrose Bierce
clock | August 21, 2008I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
- Richard Feynman
clock | August 20, 2008Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
- H. Jackson Brown
clock | August 19, 2008I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.
- Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx
clock | August 18, 2008Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- Gustave Flaubert
clock | August 17, 2008Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
- Peter Drucker
clock | August 16, 2008If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
clock | August 15, 2008Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
clock | August 14, 2008Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
- Harold Coffin
clock | August 13, 2008I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
- Linda Ellerbee