Clock Quotes
clock | December 24, 2007She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson, regarding Eleanor Roosevelt
clock | December 23, 2007Begin today! No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.
- Henry C. Blinn
clock | December 22, 2007Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
- Karl Kraus, 1874 - 1936
clock | December 21, 2007It was both odd and unjust...a real example of the pitiful arbitrariness of existence, that you were born into a particular time and held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.
- Daniel Kehlmann, in 'Measuring the World' (hat-tip: Benjamin Cohen)
clock | December 20, 2007Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
- Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant
clock | December 19, 2007I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
- Jennifer Unlimited
clock | December 15, 2007Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | December 14, 2007Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
- Henry Van Dyke
clock | December 13, 2007To those who sweat for their daily bread leisure is a longed-for sweet until they get it.
- John Maynard Keynes
clock | December 12, 2007Sleep that knits up the ravel'd sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
- William Shakespeare
clock | December 11, 2007I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day cause that means it's going to be up all night.
- Steven Wright
clock | December 9, 2007The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
- Herb Caen
clock | December 8, 2007Our theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body til it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with the power to drag the soul down to perdition.
- Eliza Farnham
clock | December 6, 2007The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
- H. R. Trevor-Roper
clock | December 5, 2007I wake to sleep,
and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
- Theodore Roethke