Time Clock Quotes:

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

- Golda Meir

topic: Time, Memorable, Positivity, Mastering Time, Time Clock

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

- Dion Boucicault

source: 'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

topic: Time, Men, Killing, Life's Too Short, Someone Dying

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

topic: Life, Time, Long, Life Time, Little Time

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

- Sam Levenson

source: 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

topic: Motivational, Success, Time, Positive Thoughts, Inspirational Career

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Time, Memories, Aging, Timeliness, Time Clock

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

- Henry Austin Dobson

source: Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

topic: Life, Time, Times Gone By, Old Time, Short Time

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Life, Time, Calendars, Two Nations, Time Is Precious

All my possessions for a moment of time.

- Elizabeth I

topic: Time, Moments, Last Words, Managing Time, Famous Last Words

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Motivational, Time, Memorable, Wasted My Time, Waste Of Life

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

- Tillie Olsen

source: Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Time, Scary, Scared, Time Clock, Concept Of Time

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.

- Osbert Sitwell

source: Poems about People (1958) "Milordo Inglese"

topic: Time, Reality, Names, Time Clock, Time To Kill

I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.

- David James Duncan

source: David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.94, Dial Press

topic: Confused, School, Sight, Surly, So Confused

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Mean, Fate, Long, Time Clock

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

- Stephanie Mills

source: Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press

topic: World, Possibility, Clock, Time Clock

It is largely dissynchronous timing standards that have kept human beings off-balance and alienated from the natural cycles of the Earth they inhabit. The worst culprit is the Gregorian calendar, and by extension the "12:60 frequency" that it fosters - together these have become, in essence, the inescapable time clock of globalist capitalism.

- Jose Arguelles

topic: Peace, Essence, Balance, Culprit, Time Clock

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Children, Father, America, Pilgrim, Time Clock