Clocks are an essential part of our lives and have changed our lives in ways that we don’t even give it credit for. To elaborate, the GPS and the internet we use the only function properly because of super-accurate clocks known as an atomic clock. So, we decided to look into some of clock oriented quotes to get a snip bit from the clockverse. So, without further ado, let’s dive right in
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Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say ‘I do not know the time’ . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real.
”― John Fowles
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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
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Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
“– An old proverb
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You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time
“– Dave Winfield
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Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall.
” -Thom Yorke
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Tick, Tick, Tick. This is the sound of your life running out.
” – Anonymous
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A Clock is not time; it’s numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.
“Peter S Beagle
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We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
” Paul Kagame
“Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.
” Robert Service
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Clockwatchers never seem to be having a good time.
“-James Cash Penney
“Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.
“– Leonard Ravenhill
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A clock only turns one direction.
“–Nancy E Turner
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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
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Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness.
“–Matshona Dhliwayo
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
“–Ben Folds
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Clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
“- David Mitchell
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“You’ve got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.
“–Elisabeth Rohm
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The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.
“–Alice Morse Earle
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There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
“-Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.
“–Ernest Moniz
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The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down and must be wound up daily with good thoughts.
“–Fulton J Sheen
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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
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Digital clocks took the space out of time.
“–Don DeLillo
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Time – whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist’s waiting room is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.
“–Joan Lindsay
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A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
“-Susan Glaspell
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The clock sweats out each minute of what meat is left to us.
“–Joseph Bathanti
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We progress a step farther, in each tick of the clock.
“–Ronnie Cornelisz
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CLOCK, A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
“–Ambrose Bierce
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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
“–Thomas Otway
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Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.
“-Hal Borland
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A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.
”– Mary Lascelles
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We progress a step farther, in each tick of the clock
”– Ronnie Cornelisz
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When time doesn’t heal things in life, there’s only one way out—seeking help from the one whom all clocks tick for.
“– VKBoy
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Without sensuality, breath is just a clock ticking.
”– Lebo Grand
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When you’re on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That’s true of all of life, but it’s very vivid on a film set because you’re always managing that.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
“-Jhon henry
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.
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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.
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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
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Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of a clocks in a railway station
“-Cyrill Conolly
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The clock had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circles
“-Don Bradley
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.
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You’ve got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.
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We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.
This was an extensive list of some of the most elegant clock’s quotes out there. Hopefully, it was helpful and if you have any further related questions do use the comment section below.
And if you want to know why clocks don’t appear in dreams, we have a great article on just that so do give it a click if you are interested “Why don’t clocks appear in dreams? Clocks and dreams!
“. Here is also a link about the history of clocks if you want to give that a look “History of timekeeping devices“