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Quotes About Split-second

post?' At first, he said yes and Ashley started retreating. Then David decided he didn't need him there after all. Ashley came back towards the 18 yard line just as Zizou stepped up towards the ball. Did we, for whatever reason, let our concentration drop for a split second? If we did, it cost us. I'd say, though, that that equaliser was all about the
~ David Beckham
Every policy officer is sworn to protect life, and, under the most extreme circumstances, to take life. It is a staggering responsibility that requires officers to make split second decisions.
~ Rahm Emanuel
When you react to things, that's when you get into trouble and it's tough to completely control a split-second reaction.
~ Brad Marchand
I come out of streets where life itself--life itself!--depends on timing more infinitesimal than the split second, where apprehension must be swifter than the speed of light.
~ baldwin james x
Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.
~ Deepika Padukone
It's a goalkeeper's job. There's so many times you're doing nothing for 89, 90 minutes, and then there's a split-second moment. It's a different challenge to outfield players, who have a lot of physical challenges and battle. We have a lot of mental battles; it's about maintaining your focus, refining processes of what you do in a game.
~ Karen Bardsley
I try to look up as quickly as possible, try to read the situation, but football is so quick, it's just a split-second, and then you decide.
~ Kevin De Bruyne
unfortunately, I am incapable of thinking up perfectly biting, split-second retorts, in any language. The French even have a word for this: l'esprit de l'escalier; staircase wit, something you only think of on the way out.
~ Tania Aebi
Death was reduced to a visible, but instantaneous event. Contact between the law, or those who carry it out, and the body of the criminal, is reduced to a split second. There is no physical confrontation; the executioner need be no more than a meticulous watchmaker.
~ Michel Foucault
I knew police officers have a very difficult job. They have to make split second decisions that will impact not only the communities they serve but their families, their own personal lives.
~ Doug Baldwin
Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time - helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often occur in a split second, after which nothing is ever the same.
~ Lionel Shriver
Especially as a goalkeeper, when you are closed down, you have to make a decision in a split second, and sometimes it is better to make the wrong one rather than wait and see what's happening.
~ Simon Mignolet
It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
~ Jacob Dalton
Their handshake looked, for the first split-second he looked, like C.T. was jacking off and the little girl was going Sieg Heil.
~ David Foster Wallace