Category Archives: Clock Quotes

That which we are, we are.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
made weak by time and fate.
But strong in will,
to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yeild.
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
– Anne Sullivan

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls.
– Anne Frank

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
– Anne Dudley Bradstreet

I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
– Anna Quindlin

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
– Anna Freud

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
– Ann Radcliffe

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
– Ann Morrow Lindbergh

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.
– Ani Difranco

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
– Andrew Jackson

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
– Andrew Carnegie

Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
– Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
– Amanda Heggs, AIDS sufferer, quoted in The Guardian, June 12, 1989

Sometimes only one person is absent and the whole world seems depopulated.
– Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
– Anais Nin

If you haven’t grown up by the time you are fifty, you don’t have to.
– Rick Cook

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
– Albert Schweitzer

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
– Albert Einstein

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
– Alan Alexander Milne

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
– Alicia Barnhart

It takes a very long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
– Alice Koller

If it’s painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it – that’s the time to hold your tongue.
– Alice Duer Miller

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
– Alfred North Whitehead

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
– Alfred Wiggam

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.
– Alfred Sheinwold

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
– Alfred North Whitehead

Proverbs are jewels five words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all time sparkle forever.
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it.
– Alfred Alistair Cooke

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.In times when the passions are beginning to take charge of the conduct of human affairs, one should pay less attention to what men of experience and common sense are thinking than to what is preoccupying the imagination of dreamers.
– Alexis de Tocqueville

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
– Alexandre Dumas, pere

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.
– Alexander Woollcott

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
– Alexander Smith

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
– Alexander Pope

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.
– Alexander Graham Bell

Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it.
– Alex Schure

Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.
– Aleksandar Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
– Albert Schweitzer

Time brings all things to pass.
– Aeschylus

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
– Albert Einstein

Ogden’s Law: The sooner you get behind, the more time you will have to catch up.
– Alan R. Ogden

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
– Alan Alexander Milne

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
– Alain (1818-1951)

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
– Al Bernstein

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work and amusements than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other good things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.
– Agnes Repplier

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
– Albert Camus

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, ever minutes so filled with the life I love, that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
– Aga Khan III

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
– Aeschylus

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
– Adlai Ewing Stevenson

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
– Abram L. Urban

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
– Abigail Van Buren