Clock Quotes

• 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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• I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Simple Life, Small Villages

  "The Old Left". New York Times Magazine Interview, www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

  Bonnie Prudden

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cheer Up

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  Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

  Michael Ende

  Calendars, Littles, Eternity

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• We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Motivational, Being Yourself

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• We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

  Max Lerner

  Running, Time, Men

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

  David Levithan

  Tick

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.187, Egmont UK

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• The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

  Ben Folds

  Reality, Waiting, Growing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

  Paul Pierce

  Basketball, Sports, Zero

  Interview with Hilary Goldstein, www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.

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• The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

  Emily Bronte

  Half, Hours, Strikes

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• No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !

  Kyrie Irving

  Passion, Alarms, Needed

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• Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Good Morning, Good Day, Up Early

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

  Hal Borland

  Time, Sun, Dimensions

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• It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

  Bonnie Blair

  Leadership, Sports, Lying

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• The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Time, Artist

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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• Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

  Hermann Bondi

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• The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Advertising, Saving Money

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• This is your life and the clock is ticking.

  Phil McGraw

  Life, Clock Is Ticking

  Dr. Phil McGraw (2003). “Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Witty, Time, Humorous

  La Naus‚e (Nausea, 1938) "Vendredi"

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• Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day.

  Sting

  Zero, Starting Up, New Day

  Sting (2009). “Sting (Songbook)”, p.10, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

  Thomas Otway

  Time, Men, Certain

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• Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

  Pablo Picasso

  Work, Men, Alarms

  "Picasso On Art: A Selection of Views".

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