What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives. Susan Glaspell More Quotes by Susan Glaspell More Quotes From Susan Glaspell We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing. Susan Glaspell trifles different kind In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together. Susan Glaspell together writing war Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were. Susan Glaspell Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship. Susan Glaspell criticism judging water Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house. Susan Glaspell inspirational kids children There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good. Susan Glaspell conquer struggle heart A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time. Susan Glaspell machines time littles The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years. Susan Glaspell men past knowledge Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome. Susan Glaspell welcome half past It is through suppression that hells are formed in us. Susan Glaspell suppression denial hell To cease to love -- that is defeat. Susan Glaspell cease defeat What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day. Susan Glaspell important men past What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find. Susan Glaspell tidy reckless would-be Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage. Susan Glaspell resentment doors There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day. Susan Glaspell world firsts thinking Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men. Susan Glaspell killing-others men war As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish. Susan Glaspell cherish grows thinking Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised. Susan Glaspell brotherhood democracy opportunity For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent. Susan Glaspell deny half self They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words. Susan Glaspell effort soul made