Leap Second Quotes

#1. Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

Jay Griffiths

#2. When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?

Neil Strauss

#3. I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

Peter O'Toole

#4. Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

Graham Joyce

#5. You know, Britney is one of those women who looks good from afar, but up close she looks far from good.

Liz Dodwell

#6. Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?"
"It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words ...

Cassandra Clare

#7. I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

J. Paul Getty

#8. He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second ... and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh that time. His face twisted fast, grabbed my pajama leg and wrenched, and down I went.
Bully

Kelley Armstrong

#9. The best gift a man gives is one which he himself would like to keep.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

Margaret Thatcher

#11. Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.

Andy Murray

#12. Every hardship is relief,there is one hardship with two relief so one hardship can't over come two relief

Iqbal Ahmed

#13. I fell in love with dressing myself up.

Fan Bingbing

#14. It was your basic Irish summer day, irritatingly coy, all sun and skidding clouds and jackknifing breeze, ready at any second to make an effortless leap into bucketing rain or blazing sun or both.

Tana French

#15. And if our love was a story book
We would meet on the very first page
The last chapter would be about
How I'm thankful for the life we've made.I Love You...

J. Hampden Jackson

#16. He spent the last second of his life screaming, as the force of Bortan's leap pulped him against the ground, before his head was snatched from his shoulders.
My hellhound had arrived.

Roger Zelazny

#17. My identity is without root.

C.S. Friedman

#18. I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my mind.. God has a great plan to redeem society. He needs me and wants to use me.

Robert H. Schuller

#19. Live in the present moment, you can't go back to yesterday, you can't leap into tomorrow, Today is your second, minute, hour! Embrace It!

Amaka Imani Nkosazana