Seconds Quotes - Page 26

• One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

  Glen Duncan

  Flower, Silence, Dying

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• If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.

  Ralph Marston

  Success, Running, Matter

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• At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.

  Arjun Rampal

  Heart, Eight, Training

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• If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

  Ben Kingsley

  Long, Choices, Wish

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• I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.

  John Cleese

  Real, Thinking, Understanding

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. February 5, 2008.

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• We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.

  Dorothy Day

  Cities, Silence, Sound

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• A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.

  Mindy Kaling

  Tears, Three, Four

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.169, Crown/Archetype

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• I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

  Garrison Wynn

  Behavior, Tolerate, Persons

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• You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

  Amy Welborn

  Prayer, Knees, Praying

  Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.36, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.

  Katharine McPhee

  Country, Children, Silly

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• There were things out there in the world, things that vampires feared, and now those things were here. She was only seconds out of a very light, fitful sleep, but she knew that the nightmares had followed her effortlessly right into the real world. The draug. They weren’t vampires; they were something else, something that moved through water, formed out of it, dragged vampires down to a slow and awful death.

  Rachel Caine

  Real, Sleep, Light

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.9, Allison & Busby

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• Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Blessed, Science

  "The Devil's Dictionary:". Book by Ambrose Bierce (p. 204), 2008.

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• Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

  Aidan Chambers

  Opportunity, Missing, Chance

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.189, Abrams

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• I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Opposites, Class, Would Be

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• In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the stage and say, "No, it's great to be here!" I would move again: "No, it's great to be here!

  Steve Martin

  Moving, Stage, Spots

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

  Douglas Adams

  Three, Thirty, Counting

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.171, Pan Macmillan

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• Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

  Garrison Wynn

  Stupid, Average, Rest Of Your Life

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• I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.

  George Carlin

  Sorry, Two, Comedian

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I just try to make sure every day that I'm blessed to live on this earth that I seize that day. I'm 25 and, you know, I know with each passing second, I'm getting older. So, I might well seize every single one of those seconds and make sure I'm doing as much as I possibly can in the community to know we worked hard for this and to instill that into everybody around me is truly my goal.

  Robert Griffin III

  Blessed, Goal, Community

  "Mitt Romney on Hillary Clinton's candidacy, crowded GOP field; Sen. Bob Menendez on indictment, Iran and Cuba". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2015.

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• You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Mean, Mind

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• There comes a time when all the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place - and the universe opens itself up for a few seconds to show you what's possible.

  Ray Kinsella

  There Comes A Time, Cosmic, Shows

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• Sublime moments refracted,
  Even if only for seconds,
  Caught forever in your soul.

  Scott Hastie

  Forever, Soul, Sublime

  Scott Hastie, “We Are Anything”

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• Every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

  Andy Biersack

  Bvb, Upset, Black Veil Brides

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• There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol.' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way.

  Leslie Moonves

  Winning, Idols, People

  "CBS Chief Isn't Worried About YouTube or Google — 'As Long as We Get Paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.

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• Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Superhero, Three, Hard

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