Seconds Quotes - page 2

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st. (Carl Sagan)
That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it. View quote
Douglas Adams
On the other hand, and let's face it, there's always another hand, unless you're a Saudi Arabian shoplifter of course, hurt feelings can be quite traumatic. I've heard that it can take seconds, sometimes even minutes, to get over it. View quote
Pat Condell
I think what a big part of 30 Seconds to Mars is, it's not only music, it's not only art, it's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong. And not everybody will understand it, and that's ok, it's just for the people that do. View quote
Jared Leto
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.) View quote
Anatol Rapoport
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds. View quote
Ted Nelson
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted. View quote
Claire Danes
What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale. View quote
Alex Trebek
They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever. View quote
Markus Zusak
I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds. (Meg Cabot)
Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time. View quote
Melina Marchetta
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. View quote
Mindy Kaling
There was Tyson moving into the Poseidon cabin, giggling to himself every fifteen seconds and saying, "Percy is my brother?" like he'd just won the lottery. Aw, Tyson," I'd say. "It's not that simple. View quote
Rick Riordan
Um," Grover said. "Percy?" "Yeah?" "I thought you'd want to know." "Yeah?" "Cerberus? He's saying we've got ten seconds to pray to the god of our choice. After that... well... he's hungry. View quote
Rick Riordan
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds? View quote
Rick Riordan
They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn't sure which one of them was going to kill her first. View quote
Rick Riordan
We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are. View quote
David Levithan
I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want. (David Levithan)
Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count. View quote
Jacqueline Susann
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking. View quote
James Patterson
Witihin seconds the headhunter had lost control of his car and it squealed, sliding sideways right into several other cars. Cool!' said the Gasman. View quote
James Patterson
1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies. View quote
Jean Ziegler