Long Fuse Quotes

#1. Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.

Peter Capaldi

#2. Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.

Howard G. Hendricks

#3. When every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.

Cyril Connolly

#4. I have a long fuse.

Katherine Jenkins

#5. My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Frances O'Grady

#6. He who procrastinates will light the long fuse of dynamite.

Geoff Rogers

#7. People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this; boredom is an easy way to be drained.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

Terry Tempest Williams

#9. I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Cleo Moore

#10. Providence has a curious way of letting two lives run along, each apparently independent of the other. Parallel lines they seem, hopeless of meeting. Converging lines really, destined, through long ages, by every deed that has been done to meet as a certain point and there fuse.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#11. Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'

David Hawkins

#12. Whether you live or die is irrelevant. You are Arameri, and like all of us, you will serve.

N.K. Jemisin

#13. Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.

Mary Harron

#14. No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. "You hath HE quickened," is true of all who are quickened.

Charles Spurgeon

#15. We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

C.S. Lewis

#16. I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Orson Welles

#17. I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that, and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.

Scott Michael Foster

#18. Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.

Ricky Williams

#19. Tinted windows rounded the corner, obviously chasing Kevin. It blew past us, screeching to a

Janet Evanovich

#20. The blue smoke rose into the blue air, solemn, beautiful as all that day. I stood there long after everyone else was gone, and my life seemed to me to have as much meaning as that wavering and insubstantial column, or as the dead grass that fed it.

Howard Spring

#21. So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it's not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#22. Would see. Hope, faith, change: these were fragile things, and they had to be tended.

V.E Schwab

#23. I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

Joe Wright

#24. It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

Terry Pratchett

#25. When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

Andrew Sullivan

#26. Mom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my problem was that I was too impatient, my fuse was too short, that I was only interested in instant gratification. I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.

Carrie Fisher

#27. Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

Karen Traviss

#28. I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

Chris O'Donnell