Wind The Clock Quotes

#1. Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

William Butler Yeats

#2. Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Brad Feld

#3. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

E.B. White

#4. Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.

Thomas De Quincey

#5. You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Bonnie Prudden

#6. If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

John Locke

#7. A man is up against a hard game when he must die to beat it.

Zora Neale Hurston

#8. People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.

Charles Roven

#9. Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving.

Sam Storms

#11. You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, We have now landed in Lonely Place's Down-at-Heels Airport, where the local time is 1943 and the temperature is ... frozen.

Pico Iyer

#12. They joined hands.
So the world ended.
And the next one began.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. If rackabones eat up the sky, if words spring out of rock, my soul will wind down and life run out the clock.

Andre Alexis

#14. And then he understands: it's a loop, an endless loop of injured children, growing old but keeping their pain fresh and new, causing yet more injury and starting the whole cycle over again.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#15. Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#16. See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

Philip James Bailey

#17. At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

#18. I live like a cuckoo in a clock,
I'm not jealous of the forest birds.
They wind me up - and I cuckoo.
You know - such a fate
I could only wish
For someone I hate.

Anna Akhmatova

#19. A gust of wind doesn't suddenly bang a door open. A clock doesn't chime. The phone doesn't ring. Yet in the next instant the stillness breaks as if it is crystal.

Larry Watson

#20. Within the human, good or evil aims are never ancient. They are sometimes masqueraded when reinvented in modern means

Dew Platt

#21. At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,
You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.
And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,
And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

Rudyard Kipling