Seconds Quotes - Page 7

• Where are the cops when you need them? (Nick) Probably eating beignets. As the old saying goes, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. (Caleb)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Police, Needs, Cop

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.212, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think that one day you'll look back and thank them for those precious fifteen seconds they just added to your life. What they don't understand is that those are just fifteen more seconds you can spend hating their guts and plotting revenge.

  David Sedaris

  Revenge, Hate, Thinking

  David Sedaris (2010). “Barrel Fever”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

  Paolo Giordano

  People, Choices, Coincidence

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• He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

  Sarah Dessen

  Optimism, Fearless, Enough

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.223, Penguin

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• Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?” “Only to people who try to kidnap me,” I tell him sweetly, and March snorts, so I feel obliged to add, “Or rescue me…” And then Dina makes a pfft sound. “Or who travel with me…” My gaze sweeps around the darkened interior, trying to find an ally, but nobody will hold my eyes more than two seconds, it seems. “Fine, frag you all, I’m dark juju, bad luck, and you’re all doomed.

  Ann Aguirre

  Mother, Powerful, Eye

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• His eyes held hers. “Because I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag.

  Julie James

  Eye, Office, Bags

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.32, Penguin

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• We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.

  Howard Rheingold

  Believe, Ideas, Issues

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• She wandered over to the enclosed range, a rather modern-looking contraption that Cook had purchased earlier in the year. "Do you know how to work this?" she asked. "No idea. You? " Daphne shook her head. "None." She reached forward and gingerly touched the surface of the stove top. "It's not hot. " " Not even a little bit? " She shook her head. "It's rather cold, actually. " Brother and sister were silent for a few seconds . " You know," Anthony finally said, "cold milk might be quite refreshing ." " I was just thinking that very thing!

  Julia Quinn

  Brother, Thinking, Years

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• It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.

  Andre Agassi

  Thinking, Games, Choices

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Jan 14, 2015

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• The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Islands, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.150, Random House

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• Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.” Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on one elegant heel to face Benedick. “When I am done with him, I am coming for your sister. And, if you intend to keep me from her, you had better have an army at your side.

  Sarah MacLean

  Army, Your Side, Oxford

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• It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophical, Years, Billions

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• Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school... Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege... We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Summer, Mom, School

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• She couldn't believe what she did then. Before she could stop herself, she leaned up on tiptoes, put her arms around his neck, and kissed him on the mouth. Her lips brushed over his for the barest of seconds, but it was still a kiss, and when she came to her senses and dared to pull away and look at him, he had the most curious expression on his face. Brodick knew she regretted her sponatenity, but as he stared into her brilliant green eyes, he also knew, with a certainty that shook him to the core, that his life had just been irrevocably changed by this mere slip of a woman.

  Julie Garwood

  Believe, Eye, Kissing

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• You still have," I looked at my watch, "twelve seconds to change your mind. Find someone else and save your reputation." One side of his lip cricked up. "I found you. I'll take my chances.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Found You, Mind, Twelve

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• Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Skills, Oil, Necks

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.399, Vintage Canada

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• I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Girl, Years, Brain

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• When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Moving

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 10, 2017

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• Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Health, Malaria

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• If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. ...After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.

  Janine Benyus

  New Year, Nature, Animal

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• And I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a couple of seconds earlier, and I was still sitting there living and breathing-though admittedly I wasn't feeling much of anything.

  Josh Lanyon

  Couple, Heart, Breathing

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• As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

  Hans Zimmer

  Life, Adventure, Needs

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• Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

  Pappy Boyington

  Funny, Humorous, Airplane

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• To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Swings, Practice

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.62, Arcade Publishing

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• You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

  Pat Summitt

  Perseverance, Winning, Games

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.100, Crown Business

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