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Quotes About Seconds

I couldn't. I just needed a few more seconds, a few more seconds to drink him in before I killed him. And that's when he spoke. "Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent.. it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate." I just barely saw his fist striking out toward my head.. and then I saw nothing at all.
~ Richelle Mead
Things went downhill pretty fast after that. Although every action and reaction felt like slow motion from Krista's perspective, the entire debacle probably took seconds.
~ Debra Salonen
It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?
~ Eoin Colfer
Artemis sighed dramatically. "Well, if we have to go, at least we'll go on full stomachs." This was an unusually cavalier comment to make with seconds to live, even for a human. "Full stomachs?" "Yes," said Artemis. "Mulch took something else from your shuttle." He picked up a small chocolate-covered ball and wiggled it before the screen. "My truffles?" gasped Opal. "You took them. That's just mean.
~ Eoin Colfer
I don't have to build up strength; I have been blessed with it. I do lift weights and train hard, but I am a very special individual - a very special man with very special talent and very special power. I can get any man - any man - out of there in a matter of seconds. That is the thing I love about myself.
~ Deontay Wilder
For a fan, a selfie takes just a moment and those who dare to ask, win. But for the celeb, the seconds can add up to never having a moment to themselves.
~ Susanna Reid
Darling? That's a funny name for a guy. Last person I called darling was pregnant twenty seconds later. ? Lord Flasheart (Rik Mayall), Blackadder: Goes Forth
~ Rik Mayall
Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn't care, because if it did, it would've reversed.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
If one day equaled the age of the universe, all of recorded history would be no more than ten seconds.
~ Jenny Offill
Fate had struck while she sat unsuspecting, had struck somewhere on one of the many curves of this cursed course. The seconds became leaden, the minutes hours. The carrousel on the white ribbon existed now only like a bad dream; her chest became a black cavity, hollowed out with waiting.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Short Life Syndrome. Night watchmen in horror movies have a life expectancy of twelve seconds. SAM WAAs, Houston
~ Roger Ebert
Only a fool would be dishonest about that could be disproved in a matter of seconds.
~ Lee Child
Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Passion is the work of seconds. You only have to make a god of what you most desire.
~ Jim Crace
Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
~ Joan Rivers
You cannot feel time grind against you. Time is nothing but everything, not the seconds, minutes, hours, days, years. Yet this substanceless substance, this bending and shaping, this warping, this is the way we understand our world.
~ Louise Erdrich
the 2.5 billion seconds that make up the average human
~ Sam Harris
Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds very many things can be done.
~ Alexandre Dumas
there are twenty-four hours in a day, sixty minutes in an hour and sixty seconds in a minute. A lot can be done in eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds.
~ Alexandre Dumas
En kan utrette atskillig på 86400 sekunder.
~ Alexandre Dumas
And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".
~ Steven Morrissey
Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one-mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.
~ Anonymous
No, I snapped. I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response. Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this? he asked. I shot him a look. Just wondering.
~ Sarah Dessen
For example, knowing that it takes only about eleven and a half days for a million seconds to tick away, whereas almost thirty-two years are required for a billion seconds to pass, gives one a better grasp of the relative magnitudes of these two common numbers.
~ John Allen Paulos