Quotes About Clock Towers

#1. As she walked, clock towers across Prague started arguing midnight, and the long, fraught Monday came at last to a close.

Laini Taylor

#2. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.

Alexander Hamilton

#3. As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.

Cristina Marrero

#4. One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

Myrtle Reed

#5. My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

John Irving

#6. You weren't world-class when Arsenal signed you.

Arsene Wenger

#7. Perfection should never be your goal. Rather, let your goal be to make a difference, yet learning every step of the way.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#8. I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don't call me lucky. Call me a badass.

Shonda Rhimes

#9. You're saying you don't want me?"
Aw hell. "No, I'm saying this is a bad idea."

"You're the king of bad ideas," he reminds me. "At least this one ends with both of us feeling good.

Sarina Bowen

#10. The good thing about being old is not being young.

Stephen Richards

#11. This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

Meister Eckhart

#12. An old black bull threw back his head and bawled when the cows behind him didn't keep up, as if telling them the breakfast buffet was about to be spread, and he wasn't waiting for grace.

Carolyn Brown

#13. The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

Sarah Dessen

#14. Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.

A.E. Housman