Clock/purposes

Famous quotes containing the words clock and/or purposes:

    He makes his voyage too late, perhaps, by a true water clock who delays too long.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
    John Updike (b. 1932)