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Author:Robert Walpole

“Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress”

Want May Children Littles Problem Home Mother Father Husband Empty Contrary Compare Clock Relief Distress Nests Departure Empty Nest

Book:Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

Source: Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

“We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.”

Way Pay Attention Watches Fine Ought Gratitude Grateful Surprise Caught Pay Attention Clock

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.”

Ifs Knows Hours Morning Audience Seven Hearing Clock Reasonable

Book:act one

Source: act one

“The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.”

May Hours Differences Watches Minutes Judgment Ordinary Machines Clock Sufficient Seconds Smallest

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock”

Done Work Duty Conscious Devil Labor Clock

Book:Canción de cuna y otros poemas

Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas

“Mothers are likely to have more bad days on the job than most other professionals, considering the hours: round-the-clock, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year. . . . You go to work when you're sick, maybe even clinically depressed, because motherhood is perhaps the only unpaid position where failure to show up can result in arrest.”

Years Two Shows Jobs Mother Hours Results Week Position Sick Seven Rounds Motherhood Clock Fifty Considering Bad Day Two Weeks Seven Days

Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“This is your life and the clock is ticking.”

Life Clock Clock Is Ticking

Book:Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out

Source: Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out

“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.”

Ifs Use Perfection Wit Clock Proportion Accurate Lively

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?”

Two Seems Turns Language Sides Hours Brain Principles Equal Mathematics Remains Sticks Corners Clock Squares Geometry Two Sides Algebra Theorems Triangles Trigonometry

Author:Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

“I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.”

Hands Time Pieces Cutting Clock Dislike Second Hand Small Pieces

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“We are the women of daylight; of clocks and steel foundries, of drugstores and streetlights, of superhighways that slice our days in two. Our dreams are pale memories of themselves, and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days.”

Two Dream Memories Doubt Clock Pale Dishes Steel Our Dreams Daylight Nagging

Book:Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995

Source: Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995

“Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now—right now—later than it has ever been.”

Time Realizing Right Now Notes Clock

Author:Kenneth Franklin

“You don't need to manage the clock when you score in one play.”

Needs Play Manage Clock Score

Author:Todd Blackledge

“Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.”

Philosophy Universe Ought Clock Exception

Book:THE DEER PARK

Source: THE DEER PARK

“The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.”

Trying Wells Facts Night Three Known Air Summer Ultimate Originals Size Clock Bags Articles Well Known Three Times Trunks

Book:The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News

Source: The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News

“Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.”

Looks May Stills Running Beautiful Faces Habit Clock Beautiful Women

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.”

Knows Freedom Morning Seven Clock Bells Milkman Gestapo

Author:Georges Bidault

“Life is one big question when your starin at the clock.”

Bigs Life Is Clock Big Questions

Author:Bradley Nowell

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

Hands Bigs Numbers Broke Clock

Author:Demetri Martin

“Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.”

Years Millions Ten Eternity Clock Strain

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.”

Men Mind Running Positive Down And Wounds Clock Always Running

Book:Men and manners: sketches and essays

Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays

“For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.”

Doe Country Purpose Records Strange Eternal Clock Passages Traveler Schedules Attempting Memorial Tick

Author:Louis J. Halle

“For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.”

People Should Running Asks Difficult Pressure Cameras Clock Staring Rolling Unnatural Under Pressure Improvising Staring At You

Author:Albert Brooks

“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”

Source: A child of the century

“I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.”

Two Three Morning Five Exercise Clock Sunday Weekend Saturday Bike Sunday Morning

Author:Tony Abbott

“Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then?”

Funny Leader Clock Aviation Roger Great Aviation Bandits Pilots And Flying

Author:Bill Watterson

“I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.”

Hard Morning Hard Work Patterns Clock Every Morning Never Change Gymnasiums

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Sometimes, you've got to be in a place. You're just another guy. You can just blend in. I live out in the wilds of nowhere, out in Jersey. Even there, there's sometimes problems. College students like journey out there and show up at 11 o'clock at night, on my porch, looking into the door not saying anything. My wife and I are sitting there; it's really creepy.”

Sometimes Shows Problem Night Guy Wife Doors Journey Students College Sitting My Wife Clock Jersey Creepy Other Guys Porch College Students Really Creepy

Author:Lou Reed

“When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.”

Ifs Mind States Hours Half Clock State Of Mind Pilots Helicopters Clock Is Ticking

Author:Michael Light

“A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now.”

Knows Kind Moments Lost Understanding Realizing Simple Built Arise Clock Unhappiness Reminders Alarms Alarm Clocks

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I do what I can to sort of just stave off the clock - walk, swim, try and smoke an electric cigarette. I mean it's all bad for you. Life is bad. We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.”

Trying Mean I Can Shows Life Is Process Walks Dying Goes On Aspect Smoke Clock Swim Freak Electric Cigarette

Author:Mel Gibson

“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.”

Humans Earth Together Peace Natural Human Beings Worst Balance Standards Capitalism Essence Clock Cycles Timing Extensions Frequency Calendars Culprit Time Clock

Author:Jose Arguelles

“DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.”

Way Humor Funny Baseball One Way Clock

Author:Jerry Coleman

“A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.”

Looks Night Loses Deals Talent Combination Clock Look Up Losing Yourself Something You Love

Author:George Lucas

“I usually record all through the night, but I'm known for waking up early in the morning. Even if I had recorded till 3 or 4 in the morning I might wake up at 9 or 10. I never sleep till 1 o clock.”

Ifs Might Night Sleep Known Morning Records Wake Up Clock Waking Up Early Never Sleep Waking Up Early

Author:Gucci Mane

“People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.”

“In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.”

Home School Three Strong Parent Memories Morning Wonderful Influence High School My Family Twenties Clock Afternoon Milk Cows Every Morning Barns Wonderful Memories

Author:Billy Graham

“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”

Country Style Built Architecture Stuck Clock Brown Hotel Architect Up And Down Steep Switzerland Sideways Cuckoos Modern Architecture Alps Architecture And Art Cuckoo Clocks

Author:Ernest Hemingway

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

Ifs Intention Mere Clock Toes Flicker Reset Biological Clock

Author:Deepak Chopra

“It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in superstition. If we could understand that the human body is a network of information and energy, then we would see that the same principles apply everywhere in the body.”

Ifs Humans Body Belief Energy Principles Information Easier Clock Rooted Superstitions Toes Human Body Reset Biological Clock

Author:Deepak Chopra

“On the most Scottish thing he'd ever seen: I was going through a town called Bathgate at around 11 o'clock at night. And there was a guy leaning and pissing against a front door. He then took out his keys and went inside.”

Humor Funny Night Guy Doors Fronts Keys Towns Clock Scottish Front Doors

Author:Frankie Boyle

“What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.”

Source: A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia

“I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.”

Knows Trying Reason Hate Loses Masters I Hate Clock Pace

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“On the day of the game you get there quite early, about 10 o'clock for a 3 o'clock kick-off, because you do a little bit of filming early on. You need to meet the crew and they need to have time to get a cup of tea and all those things the crew like to do before they go out filming.”

Needs Littles Games Bits Little Bit Cups Tea Clock Kicks Crew Cups Of Tea

Author:Jill Douglas

“Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks. We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night.”

World Real Light Night Darkness Streets Security Forgotten All Time Granted Clock Lamps Alarms Day And Night Time Of Day Alarm Clocks Headlights

Author:Jake Halpern

“People are most shocked and most in disbelief that I go to the office every day. I have a job. When I'm not acting on a movie, I go to work, first thing in the morning. I'm at work at 8 o'clock in the morning, and I get home from work at 7 o'clock at night. I treat my job like a job, and I work at it. I think people would probably be most surprised, if I ever calculated up the number of hours I work on an average week and published that. If it was ever documented, I think people would be shocked to find out.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Home Would Be Jobs Night Hours Numbers Acting Morning Week Office Treats Average Clock Shocked Disbelief

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I think you approach a part the same way and just find out in what's making them tick and who they are. In a movie like this you may have a little less time and few dialogue scenes and exposition scenes for your character to really get that across, and so I wanted to be able to convey that she's not somebody who's just punching a clock but she has this weird emotional investment in her job to where she does get quite myopic and that's what makes her relentless.”

Thinking Way May Littles Doe Character Able Wanted Jobs Emotional Scene Approach Investment Dialogue Clock Relentless Tick Punching Myopic Emotional Investment

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with defining success just in terms of money and power means that people feel that they have to work around the clock, burn out, and the result is people making terrible decisions.”

People Thinking Feels Mean Problem Term Decision Results Terrible Thirds Combination Clock Defining Wellbeing Burn Out Metrics Money And Power

Author:Arianna Huffington

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