Clock Quotes
All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
- Peter M. Leschak
One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
- Ida Scott Taylor
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
- Marcus Aurelius
In former times it took dozens of clerks, secretaries, and administrators to create a bureaucratic milieu capable of diffusing responsibility for misinformation and disservices. Today thanks to desk-top information processors, small firms and agencies down to the neighborhood hardware store are finding it possible to emulate the bureaucratic style by blaming their disservices on their computer.
- Marvin Harris
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.
- Garrison Keillor
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
- Merrick Furst
Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple.
- Kevin R. Hutson
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- Herbert George Wells
The funny thing is that everything is science fiction at one time or another.
- Gene Roddenberry
If by the time we are 60 we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.
- John Cowper Powys
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
- Jim Rohn
To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
- George Orwell
The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.
- Daniel Joseph Boorstin