Time Clock Quotes

• I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

  Golda Meir

  Time, Memorable, Positivity

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• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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• Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Time, Long

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

  Sam Levenson

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.146, Open Road Media

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• As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Memories, Transcendentalism

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing By

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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• But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Time, Two Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

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• Only when the clock stops does time come to life

  William Faulkner

  Time, Doe, Clock

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• All my possessions for a moment of time.

  Elizabeth I

  Time, Moments, Famous Last Words

  Last words

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• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Time, Memorable

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 49

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• The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

  Tillie Olsen

  Time, Scary, Scared

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press

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• In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Time, Reality, Names

  Poems about People (1958) "Milordo Inglese"

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• I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.

  David James Duncan

  Confused, School, Sight

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.94, Dial Press

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• Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Fate, Long

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.176, Penguin

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• Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

  Stephanie Mills

  World, Possibility, Clock

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press

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• It is largely dissynchronous timing standards that have kept human beings off-balance and alienated from the natural cycles of the Earth they inhabit. The worst culprit is the Gregorian calendar, and by extension the "12:60 frequency" that it fosters - together these have become, in essence, the inescapable time clock of globalist capitalism.

  Jose Arguelles

  Peace, Essence, Balance

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• At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

  e. e. cummings

  Children, Father, America

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