Bomb Ticking Quotes

#1. Every clock is a bomb, ticking away at the minutes of our lives, counting off the seconds one by one before we die.
At birth a heart it given a certain number of beats. The clock is counting them off one by one and will not allow a man any more than his allotted share.

Carolee Dean

#2. Dude, we both know it's only going to get worse. You're like a ticking sex bomb.

Stacey O'Neale

#3. Suddenly it felt like there was a ticking time bomb in the house. I didn't have all the time in the world to make you love me again; I had only a few short months.

Natasha Anders

#4. I was wrong about you, Izabel," I whisper near her ear; the pain engulfing my insides. "I am the ticking time bomb. I am more unstable than I ever could have imagined. You are discipline, and I am rage. And the only way I know to control the chaos inside, is to eradicate the things that control me.

J.A. Redmerski

#5. Harb was a ticking time bomb. It was like watching a preacher with Tourette syndrome. You knew the "Shit! Balls!" was coming at some point during the sermon, probably while he was slapping you on the forehead during a faith healing.

John Corwin

#6. That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog. To tell you the truth I'm kind of glad he hit you.

Lev Grossman

#7. Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.

Peter DeFazio

#8. I was starting to fall in love with Michael Boutilier. Quickly, violently. It was a love that was both armed and dangerous, a ticking time-bomb of destruction that threatened to send my whole world up in flames
and it felt good.

Nenia Campbell

#9. Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

John Diefenbaker

#10. Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.

Brian Koslow

#11. Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing ... is also a ticking time bomb of frustration ... You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation.

Ronan Farrow

#12. There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out hadn't shown up or spoken to me for more than a year.

Jim Butcher

#13. I like James Franco. I think he's really cute. I remember a while ago there was a rumor going around that he was getting married and all my friends and I were freaking out. Yeah, I think he's cute!

Miranda Cosgrove

#14. Their arguments always went like this. The angrier Madeline got, the more freakishly calm Ed became, until he reached a point where he sounded like a hostage negotiator dealing with a lunatic and a ticking bomb. It was infuriating.

Liane Moriarty

#15. 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' has taught me more about the nature of a vacuum in space than any of the demonstrations in my high school AP physics textbook.

Andrea Seigel

#16. You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy ... But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.

Alexander Gustafsson

#17. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?

Sorin Cerin

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

Melanne Verveer

#19. We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb.

Richard Preston

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

Kimberly Guilfoyle

#21. Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.

Lisa Ling

#22. Keeping him in here is like snuggling up to a bomb, content that it's not going to explode simply because you can still hear it ticking.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.

Trent Jamieson

#24. Her father might think that she was weaker than the boys, but that didn't mean that she had to go and prove him right.

R.L. Mathewson

#25. Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.

Dan Alatorre

#26. If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Alan Dershowitz

#27. 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

#28. Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.

Lev Grossman

#29. The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

Robert Farrar Capon

#30. Ever since we'd found Wilson, his cousin's calmness bothered me. I realized now I felt less unease with angry outbursts from grieving relatives, than I had with the slow, ticking time bomb of the quiet and collected.
--Prepped for Kill, Marjorie Gardens Mystery Book 2

A.E.H. Veenman

#31. Even a happiest person have a past they need to hide

No One

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

Arthur Caplan

#33. I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

Heath Ledger

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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