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She stared at me, like day stares at an hourglass and night, the sand trickling through time; the sea disappearing to eyes in the dark. But I hear her waves coming in, as she whispers one last chance goodbye. – Anthony Liccione	added by anonymous 4 years ago
You can't simply unleash the monster and say it's too big to control, the hourglass has run out. – Richard Blumenthal	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We can't get things to normal until we unite as a community and ask these folks to go home so we can start working together, the fact is there is there is an hourglass, and it's running. And time is going to run out. – Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Politics has a musical chairs component to it, you have the hourglass of sand and at the end of the day, there's only one seat. – Scott Walker	Found on CNN 8 years ago
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. – Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one. – James Gordon Gilkey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. – Jean Paul	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. – Jules Renard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You think a man is a man cause he wears team colors and guzzles beer in front of the tube Can't you see, boys, the sands of time are dribbling through the hourglass – Robin Green	added by anonymous 14 years ago

She stared at me, like day stares at an hourglass and night, the sand trickling through time; the sea disappearing to eyes in the dark. But I hear her waves coming in, as she whispers one last chance goodbye.

– Anthony Liccione

added by anonymous
4 years ago

You can't simply unleash the monster and say it's too big to control, the hourglass has run out.

– Richard Blumenthal

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We can't get things to normal until we unite as a community and ask these folks to go home so we can start working together, the fact is there is there is an hourglass, and it's running. And time is going to run out.

– Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Politics has a musical chairs component to it, you have the hourglass of sand and at the end of the day, there's only one seat.

– Scott Walker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

– Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one.

– James Gordon Gilkey

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

– Jean Paul

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

– Jules Renard

added by anonymous
14 years ago

You think a man is a man cause he wears team colors and guzzles beer in front of the tube Can't you see, boys, the sands of time are dribbling through the hourglass

– Robin Green

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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