Quotes About Ticking Bomb

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen

Maurice Sendak

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

Robert Farrar Capon

#7. People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

Amy Bloom

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened.

Graeme Le Saux

#13. 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

#14. Because what else was there for me - an aberration, an untouchable, an outsider? What could I say when I was alone at night and the shadows came? How else could I calm the thud of my beating heart but with the words: This is my fate.

Leslye Walton

#15. Dammit, it's just like a man to put a rich, fattening meal in front of a woman and get offended when she won't eat, then you seem shocked in the bedroom when you're looking at her hips and wondering how she put on ten extra pounds.

Jennifer Probst

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

Stacey O'Neale

#17. 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

#18. People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Alice Walker

#19. If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

Jimmy Iovine

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

Melanne Verveer

#21. 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

#22. We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.

Daphne Oz

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Unexpected hardship refines people; if you can accept it, both mind and body will benefit. If you cannot accept it, on the other hand, both mind and body will be harmed.

Zicheng Hong

#28. Why, there's just something downright delicious about a gentleman who can handle himself well in a dangerous situaion.

Jen Turano

#29. I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

Adrian Grenier

#30. 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

#31. We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.

Ken Burns

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Kimberly Guilfoyle

#35. 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

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

Arthur Caplan

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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