Quotes About Defusing

#1. Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats.

Peter Singer

#2. White had learned that going back in time was a way of fixing things; uncovering past traumas, revisiting them and defusing their power.

Helen Macdonald

#3. Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

Tina Brown

#4. You think he has some bomb defusing MacGyver contraption cooked up that involves lube, condoms, and a paper clip?

Stephani Hecht

#5. Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.

Jeanette Winterson

#6. I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler.

Ally Carter

#7. Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.

Mohamed Zahy Hussain

#8. Obviously, I haven't succeeded in defusing the political concerns about the Fed.

Ben Bernanke

#9. I see no constitutional problems with the identification, staving off and defusing of outside threats.

Thomas De Maiziere

#10. Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Virginia Postrel

#12. The worst part is watching someone you love love someone else

Sheena Hutchinson

#13. I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Quentin Tarantino

#14. I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

Alan Cumming

#15. If joy could break windows and hallelujahs could break floorboards, this church would have been broken down by noon.

Hannah Brencher

#16. Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.

Jeev Milkha Singh

#17. Kellan's hand found hers, took it into his strong grasp. "There," he said, pressing a kiss to the center of her palm. "I've got you, Mouse." "Yes, you do," she replied.

Tina St. John

#18. He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.

Randy Newman

#19. So there is a before and there is an after. That isn't made up. But it's just a passage of time, no big change that changes everything.

Olivia Sudjic

#20. People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

Katherine Boo