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  • We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you agree? As time passes we become infrequent visitors in the minds of those left behind. The ones who clear out the house & divide up the belongings. Throw away the rubbish. And forget. If we knew that every evening someone lit a candle and sat down to think – thought about is if only for a few seconds – then we could depart this earth in peace. No-one will light a candle for me. Who would do that?

    Thinking   Light   Ideas  
    Karin Fossum (2008). “When The Devil Holds The Candle”, p.84, Random House
  • Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.

  • Witihin seconds the headhunter had lost control of his car and it squealed, sliding sideways right into several other cars. Cool!' said the Gasman.

    Car   Sideways   Lost  
  • I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot. When that drone shot carried us through the main house with Rosalie, played so unflinchingly-brilliantly by Jurnee Smollett Bell, I signed on for the ride.

    House   Drones   Fans  
    Source: www.theaquarian.com
  • As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

    Views   Flow   Different  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In one of the commercials, you see George Bush for thirty seconds. In another commercial, you get to see George Bush for sixty seconds - kind of like his stint in the National Guard.

  • We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

    Doe   Linux   Infinite  
  • Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison,” he said, almost to himself. “There’s only one reason I can think of that they might do that,” Umar said. “That’s if they are going to execute them.” Will lookd at him for several seconds before speaking. “Well, that’s a big comfort.

  • Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

    Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster
  • There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my heart forever, or wherever it is, and that's worth it.

    Couple   Heart   Forever  
    Source: collider.com
  • Not only do I recommend Wendell Berry to anyone who will talk to me for more than seven seconds, but I buy his books in quantity and send them to people. I bought a few dozen of his newest, "Our Only World."

    Book   People   Berries  
    Source: www.bostonglobe.com
  • There are 86,400 seconds in a day. Those seconds are critical.

  • If people are looking at me in my hometown, then every woman that races against me in the peloton is as well. I can tell you, every one of them now believes that they can do it. When I go to a Cascade or Nature Valley and they race against me, the girls that are say 30 seconds from me at the races are all of a sudden saying 'I'm 30 seconds from gold I mean why can't I do this.'

    Girl   Believe   Mean  
  • Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

    Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.304, Simon and Schuster
  • The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

  • I'm a really trusting person and I always have been. I just think I've cultivated a very keen skill of recognising someone I shouldn't trust, pretty readily. A person has about 15 to 27 seconds before I'm pretty sure whether or not I can trust them or not.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

    Running   Men   Years  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2887, e-artnow
  • We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind

  • You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

  • On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!

    Night   Two   New Orleans  
  • You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song. Your ear picks it up and you get excited but then it goes into some monotone thing. The Buddha Bar stuff annoys me. I don't need to be on a beach and hear this stuff through little speakers, but people think it creates a "cool vibe".

    Song   Beach   Thinking  
    "Soulwax/2manyDJs". Interview with Kevin EG Perry, kevinegperry.com. January 5, 2012.
  • I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

    Summer   Sky   Names  
    "Graham Swift: 'As a novelist, I'm in for the long haul'". www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2017.
  • Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.

    Kings   Pulse   Firsts  
    FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 16, 2013
  • Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

    Acting   Needs   Suits  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains

    Choices   Made   Remains  
  • The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus!

    Fun   Thinking   Degrees  
    "Rebooting the 'Cosmos'". Interview with Mike Kessler, www.gq.com. March 6, 2014.
  • We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over.

    Father   Heart   Good Day  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Seconds of focused pleasureable visualization is stronger than 2000 hours of working to obtain a goal

    Goal   Stronger   Hours  
  • We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

  • Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds.

    Kristen Britain (2011). “The High King's Tomb”, p.429, Hachette UK
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