Best 242 quotes in «clock quotes» category

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

I can go round the clock without sleep.

I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove.

I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it... so I just added "ish" to every number.

I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.

I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.

If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks

I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.

I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.

I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

I got these haters like, When he gon' stop? Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

I'm sure that a French production of this [Maigret series] would be different. For better or worse, who's to say, but probably not very good for 8 o'clock on ITV.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I like the saying the every setback is a setup for a comeback. Also, "Todos los tigres son iguales" which means all tigers are the same. A fellow reporter once told me that when I was on assignment in Haiti working around the clock.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

In general I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock and outside of touring I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

It's five o'clock in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

Its five o'clock some where