Ticking Time Quotes

• Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Time, Regret

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011

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• Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Two, Evil, Choices

  "Torture? No. Except …" by Charles Krauthammer, jewishworldreview.com. May 1, 2009.

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• The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

  Arthur Caplan

  Fetus, Use, Bombs

  "Help From The Unborn Fetal-cell" by Joe Levine, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

  James Bovard

  Rights, Government, Waiting

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Clock Is Ticking, Priorities

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• Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Valentines Day, Meaningful, Famous Love

  Henry Van Dyke (1904). “Music, and Other Poems”

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• I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

  Libby Trickett

  Sports, Swimming, Clock Is Ticking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Foundation, Bombs

  "Space and the Spirit of Man". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1965.

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• The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.

  Michio Kaku

  Light, Japan, Earthquakes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Book, News, Bombs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Don't you know. I am a ticking time bomb. I'm going to explode. This time, I may never be able to recover from it!

  Lee In-woo

  Drama, Bombs, May

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• The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

  Melanne Verveer

  Children, Quality, Bombs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.

  John McCain

  Dream, Children, Careers

  "McCain offers 'new fiscal conservatism' with tax plan" by Douglas S. Wood, www.cnn.com. January 11, 2000.

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