Clock quotes

Clock

174 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Elif Safak
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"God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die."

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Lin Yutang Writer
Clock

"A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already."

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"And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money."

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AJ Lee Professional Wrestler
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"Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success"

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock."

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"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."

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