Doomsday Clock Quotes

In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner of the living room and now he had a phone in his hand on which he could pretend to throw a scrunched-up piece of paper into a waste bin. The world had waited a long time for that. ~ Kate Atkinson

His existence had always been comfortable, he had always held a clear picture of himself, his duties, and his place in a world. He saw that world as a place so full of turning gears he had no hope of comprehending how things fit together, so why even try?
Now things were different, however. Now he wasn't just looking out from inside of the clockwork. Instead, he was actually seeing the final motion of the escapement - the ticking hands of the clock itself.
And it was a doomsday clock.
Both his feline and human instincts told him to let it be. It was not his problem, or his place to interfere. If the living world was destined to fall, let it happen, let it pass into history once and for all. Who was he to try to save it?
But on the other hand, if the living world were lost, then there would never again be great cats to furjack ... and couldn't it be that hearing the actual ticking of the clock gave one the responsibility to stop it? ~ Neal Shusterman

The worst lie ever told is that it is easier to destroy than to create. This lie makes people apathetic about a number of imminently avoidable horrors, particularly the nuclear ones. But Oppenheimer didn't just go outside one day and trip over an atomic bomb. Nuclear development required trillions of dollars and a massive sustained effort by America's top politicians, military advisors, and scientific geniuses. Not one damn bit of it was easy. It was certainly harder that sitting down with Stalin or Khrushchev and having a talk . . .
America had options. The path of destruction was a choice. It has always been America's choice, and we citizens have always shrugged, assuming it's too late to turn back the doomsday clock, although we're the ones who wound it in the first place. ~ Israel Morrow

Thank God for imminent doomsday. ~ Jim Butcher

So much of 'Doomsday' is taken from the early 'Mad Max' films. ~ Neil Marshall

Doomsday sells, but doesn't ring with truth. Could it be that the Apocalypse is a personal eschatology? ~ Stefan Emunds

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed. ~ Kalle Lasn

When you're at peace, you embrace the eternity.
When you're confused, you be dazzled by doomsday. ~ Toba Beta

Climate change is no longer a doomsday prophecy, it's a reality. ~ Astrid Noklebye Heiberg

The messiah arrives when it is already too late. He arrives when doomsday has already struck ~ Soroosh Shahrivar

See the clock only when you have No work ... Don't see the clock when you are working ... Clock is a lock for success ~ Bill Gates

Sadie Kane here. If you're listening to this, congratulations, you survived doomsday. ~ Rick Riordan

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other. ~ Indra Nooyi

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock. ~ Mark Twain

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane. ~ James Lafferty

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

If silence of the days and darkness of the nights is the indicator of the doomsday; we are already in it. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

He is like a man living through the night before doomsday, with full knowledge that the sun will go nova in the morning, yet unable to enjoy the precious pleasures of this world because all his energy is devoted to wishing desperately that the foreseen end will not, after all, come to pass. ~ Dean Koontz

Thought that he was a clock was like a clock was like a spring in a clock when it breaks and explodes when he had his fits. But he was not like a clock or at least was only like a clock to me. But to himself? Who knows? And so it is not he who was like a clock but me. ~ Paul Harding

There's a big overlap between conspiracy theorists, racists, gun nuts, doomsday preppers, fans of the rapture and poor white Republicans. They all have one thing in common: They feel like the oppressed underdogs. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking. ~ Jane Lynch

You think they could stop putting these experts on the news with their doomsday scenarios of how the terrorists might attack us? Because you get the sense they're coming up with ideas that these people haven't thought of themselves. ~ Greg Giraldo

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, ~ Helen Harper

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock. ~ Deepak Chopra

Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~ Joseph Farah

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor. ~ Bernard Hopkins

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops. ~ Alonzo Mourning

A glance toward her digital clock showed the numbers twitching and randomly changing on their own, as though her clock couldn't make up its mind on what time it wanted to be. ~ Kelly Creagh

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.' ~ Douglas Coupland

We're gonna rock around the clock. ~ Bill Haley

The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions. ~ Ernest Moniz

Your life clock is ticking. But you know what? God made the clock. ~ Strength Renewed ~ Shirley Corder

This is your life and the clock is ticking. ~ Phil McGraw

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

We have always trusted the control of our doomsday devices to the "key" elected of our nations.
The current "interests" reorganizing the world now transcend the interests of nations.
So these weapons will only be launched to serve interests other than that of the nations that launch them;

Hence the "key" elected… ~ Haroutioun Bochnakian

Then they all heard the town clock chime. The goblin put his head to one side as if he was counting. The clock chimed twelve times, and then the goblin giggled. "Twelve o'clock," he said, rubbing his hands together with glee. ~ Daisy Meadows

If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock. ~ Elliott Abrams

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once. ~ Sloane Crosley

She was the clock, a clock that had lost its key, unwinding in the dark. ~ Sharon Cameron

The world is a clock and the clock has wound to its final second - why ~ Rick Yancey

So many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock. ~ Arthur Miller

I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.

Had Ragnarok happened yet? Was it still to happen? I did not know then. I am not certain now. ~ Neil Gaiman

To refrigerate a clock was an extremely violent act, not one I could explain to anyone. ~ Peter Carey

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started. ~ Alan Shepard

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to. ~ JoBeth Williams

We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either by an automatic device ... or by a pre-programmed president who, whether he knows it or not, will be carrying out orders written years before by some operations analyst. ~ Herbert York

The clock sweats out each minute
of what meat is left to us. ~ Joseph Bathanti

Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked. ~ AJ Lee

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working. ~ Bill Gates

As I ran a few blades of grass between my fingers, enjoying the breeze as it caressed my face, I contemplated the cycle of life. As this year would host the long anticipated arrival of the Mayan Doomsday, marking the end of their long count calendar, I wasn't alone in my ponderings. The whole world was focused on the potential that we would be the last generation; the witnesses of the world's end. ~ J.M. Northup

The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. ~ Margaret Halsey

Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? ~ Emil Cioran

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

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging. ~ Deepak Chopra

My wife complained the other day that our kitchen clock almost killed her mother. It fell seconds after where she had been sitting. That damn clock always was slow. ~ Various

Time can tick when there is no clock. ~ Anne Rice

It is the fear of death
24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black
that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever. ~ Lewis H. Lapham

We all are conditioned to be settled down at 30 and have a job. Women are thinking "Well, when am I having children?" There is a biological clock. There are things that you're thinking about as a woman. ~ Daryl Wein

The first thing he saw in the small room was a large clock on the wall which already showed ten o'clock. ~ Franz Kafka

Since I've moved here, you have shown up at my door eight times. I obey the laws, I pay my taxes, and I haven't even gotten a parking ticket in my entire time as a driver. Yet if anything at all happens in the neighborhood, you appear at my door. I bet if a meteorite fell somewhere in the subdivision, you would be here asking me if I personally launched it out of my doomsday cannon. ~ Ilona Andrews

Depression is watching the stopped clock every day but never having courage to fix it. ~ Nitya Prakash

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking. ~ Lisa Cholodenko

Forget the clock. It has no power over time. ~ Ruth Ozeki

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. ~ Tom Robbins

Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision. ~ Zig Ziglar

Every Single Number on the Clock knows all my Secrets. ~ Mian Adeel Mushtaq

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~ Ray Davies

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. ~ Lord Byron

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock. ~ David Ogilvy

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think. ~ Robert W. Service

What's wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies ~ Neil Postman

It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this. ~ Clay Aiken

Life is one big question when your starin at the clock. ~ Bradley Nowell

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality. ~ Cary Fukunaga

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. ~ Wallace Stegner

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out. ~ Lester Bowie

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was. ~ Robert Walpole

all of time is set to a clock - God's clock. We're given so much of it from sunrise to sunset each day. ~ Kristy Cambron

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does. ~ Shirley Manson

We progress a step farther, in each tick of the clock ~ Ronnie Cornelisz

Five o'clock does not say stamina. Five o'clock screams early-bird special. ~ Brynne Asher

In any case, you can't turn back the clock. ~ Michel Patini

What o'clock is it, Victor? asked Dorian Gray, sleepily. ~ Oscar Wilde

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day. ~ William Faulkner

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. ~ Terry Pratchett

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock. ~ Martin Freeman

The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to. ~ Herb Caen

I'd never choose to turn the clock back. ~ Geri Halliwell

A small poet repeats himself like a clock. ~ Austin O'Malley

Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day. ~ Dan Wells

Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers. ~ GZA

No alaram clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. ! ~ Kyrie Irving

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital ~ John Wyndham

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors. ~ Austin O'Malley

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters. ~ Marlene Dietrich

I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit ... I protest vigorously the idea that the climate reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat: just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached. ~ Hendrik Tennekes