Top 100 Quotes About Time Seconds

#1. Mikael had rarely managed to surprise Berger. This time she was silent for nearly ten seconds.

Stieg Larsson

#2. Three seconds doesn't seem like a long time, but when you're gazing into someone's eyes, it's long enough to make a silent promise.

Renee Carlino

#3. Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?

Oscar Pistorius

#4. Then one day in school, I turned round to the others and said, 'Dude, what if we started a band like All Time Low?

5 Seconds Of Summer

#5. Run through those time measurements again," Aahz grumbled.
"In seconds, minutes, hours ... "
"Minutes! We've got a few minutes.

Robert Asprin

#6. Next time I will do things to you that will make you lose controll in seconds
-Dimitri.

Richelle Mead

#7. I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.

Jandy Nelson

#8. When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

Benjamin Banneker

#10. When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm?

Cat Johnson

#11. A guy told me one time, Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner

Robert De Niro

#12. The wall clock and her wristwatch had stopped, their sweep hands no longer wiping away the seconds, and the digital clock on the microwave had gone dark, as if something that lived outside of time had stepped into this world and brought its clockless ambiance with it.

Dean Koontz

#13. Clocks measure arbitrary meters of time, but not its speed. Nobody knows if time is speeding up, or slowing down. Nobody knows what it is. How much time is there in a day? Not how many hours, minutes, seconds: how much TIME do we have?
This day?

David Mitchell

#14. There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Lou Holtz

#15. That's what nobody realizes. Two seconds are huge. It's the difference between something happening and something not happening. You could take one step too many and fall over the edge of a cliff. It's very dangerous.

Rachel Joyce

#16. I imagined I was God for a millisecond
And became speechless for a long time.

Dejan Stojanovic

#17. Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

Bill Murray

#18. We made love like a half a minute. I brought the thirty seconds, and she provided the excuse as to why she didn't have enough time to have sex with me.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#19. So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

Cat Stevens

#20. It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.

Nina George

#21. He held out his right hand in the moonlight. From the cut on his wrist the blood was still oozing. Every few seconds a drop fell, dark, almost colourless in the dead light. Drop, drop, drop. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ...
He had discovered the Time and Death and God.

Aldous Huxley

#22. It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food.

Stephenie Meyer

#23. The time between two seconds was immeasurable, and though I knew our moment would come to an end, it would be a limitless one. We were two halves of one being who had at last found each other and come together in this union.

Nicole Williams

#24. Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively

Sunday Adelaja

#25. [Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.

Luis Von Ahn

#26. There will always be 60 seconds in a minute. There will always be 60 minutes in an hour. And there will always be 24 hours n a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life

S.C. Stephens

#27. If Web users do not get a response in seven seconds, then the user's attention could be lost forever.

Andrew Holdsworth

#28. Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

Melina Marchetta

#29. The first song Ben taught me was Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water', when i was 10, and I would play it on the top string with one finger. I did it so much that there was a massive crease in the skin and i think I must have driven everyone crazy, playing that same song all the time,

5 Seconds Of Summer

#30. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.

Haruki Murakami

#31. A girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.

William Shakespeare

#32. One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

Glen Duncan

#33. Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Christine Warren

#34. There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#35. If you have sixty seconds worth of distance ... run!

Chris Stevenson

#36. Evolution has geared the human stress response to last about thirty seconds. It's enough time to facilitate fight or flight. Evolution has not adapted our brains or bodies to handle weeks or months of prolonged stress.

David Amerland

#37. Do they stop breathing for a few seconds every time they see me?

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#38. As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

Nicholas G. Carr

#39. Wasting time is when seconds, minutes and hours are passing without being converted

Sunday Adelaja

#40. When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Eckhart Tolle

#41. It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

Elmore Leonard

#42. Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.

Mel Brooks

#43. You have no minute to spare ... All you have is to dare! It should be at the back of your mind to beware ...

Israelmore Ayivor

#44. Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

Paolo Giordano

#45. Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking

Mike Tyson

#46. Time should be seen and assessed in seconds, minutes, hours and days

Sunday Adelaja

#47. Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

Wentworth Miller

#48. Sixty seconds is a long time to know you are dying.

Gillian Flynn

#49. But the moments the seconds the minutes the hours the days and years become one big mistake, one extraordinary opportunity slipped right through our fingers because we couldn't decide, we couldn't understand, we needed more time, we didn't know what to do.
We don't even know what we have done.

Tahereh Mafi

#50. I've only been gone a week, I reminded him.
Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

Meg Cabot

#51. And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.

Hermann Hesse

#52. I must say, cowboy, I'm impressed. I was worried you could only handle eight seconds at a time.

Joya Ryan

#53. Days pass, time ticks away, seconds click forward like dominoes toppling in a line.

Lauren Oliver

#54. What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

Renny Harlin

#55. Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..

Anonymous

#56. Adding travel time lost during the pit stop between photon absorption and re-emission, the total trip lasts about a million years. If a photon had a clear path from the Sun's center to its surface, its journey would instead last all of 2.3 seconds.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#57. And time thickened so that the seconds passed like years.

Kate Morton

#58. We each get twenty-four hours.
1,440 minutes.
86,400 seconds.

Every day for the rest of your days.

You can't make more, or give any away.

But you can prioritize them for the right people, or waste them on the wrong ones.

A.J. Compton

#59. After all those years of people counting off seconds in her earpiece, I swear she has time wired into every bit of her body, so that it was almost exactly an hour when she climbed out.

Anna Quindlen

#60. The elevator door opens right into the loft. I was counting on those extra few seconds of hallway before facing the party, the party we are now part of and in, a party with people talking and laughing and having a party time. I think, I am a solid, trying to do a liquid's job.

Melissa Bank

#61. Relationships are messy and painful, and hard to maintain. It takes time build, but only seconds to destroy.

Alexis Tiger

#62. People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

Pat Metheny

#63. Space and time and boundaries between identities fade away, until all that exists for those brief, endless seconds, is you, one melded person, one self. You. One you, from two fragments of I.

Jasinda Wilder

#64. There was a time, long ago, when the only peaceful moments of her existence were those from the time she opened her eyes in the morning until she attained full consciousness, a matter of seconds until when finally roused she entered the day's wakeful nightmare. She

Harper Lee

#65. Look yourself... staring into the monitor... and your time is going to be lost like that...

First seconds
Second minutes
Third hours

Deyth Banger

#66. I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale my own work.

Willard Wigan

#67. The longest prayer Peter ever prayed in the Senate-that of March 10, 1947, at the time of Mrs. Alben Barkley's death-took two minutes; the shortest, that which opened the Second Session of the Eightieth Congress-was exactly 36 words long and took a matter of seconds.

Peter Marshall

#68. There comes a time when all the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place - and the universe opens itself up for a few seconds to show you what's possible.

Ray Kinsella

#69. He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

Sarah Dessen

#70. If I had taken time to think, it would have gotten away again, but conscious thinking had been canceled by pain, surprise, and the horror I suppose almost any man feels when he sees blood pouring from a part of his body that was whole only seconds before.

Stephen King

#71. I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as he opened his mouth and shook my hand, I felt comfortable. He made me feel like I was one of his friends.

Denis Villeneuve

#72. I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.

Zach Braff

#73. Maybe we can relax here for a few seconds," says Little B. "Oops, time's up," says Howler, slapping his hand on Little B's shoulder. "Back to being tense and hunted.

Susan Ee

#74. My life for yours: it may mean three seconds of my time to redeem some thoughtless bit of self-indulgence on the part of someone else, or it may mean, or did mean, Golgotha, where My Life for Yours was supremely dramatized and entails our eternal joy.

Thomas Howard

#75. Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that's why it's not funny ... There's no time for anything to develop.

Ron Shock

#76. V's reference to his age, specifically the difference between them, only pissed Zane off more. He hated that she used that as an excuse. She'd tried it one other time, and if he remembered correctly, she'd been sprawled out beneath him in ten seconds flat, begging him to let her come.

Nicole Edwards

#77. In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Steve Lacy

#78. In these few seconds Finn lived such a long time, that the marble fell back into the bottom of an exhausted world.

Neil M. Gunn

#79. I figured I only had about two seconds to live. It's amazing how many thoughts you can have in two seconds.

Dinah Katt

#80. Whatever love laws have to be broken, the first few seconds suffice. After that everything is a matter of time and incident.

Amruta Patil

#81. I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life.

Flavor Flav

#82. An hour is indeed a long time when you count every second

Munia Khan

#83. SAS is 'created' 50 million times a year, 15 seconds at a time. These 50 million 'moments of truth' are the moments that ultimately determine whether SAS will succeed or fail as a company. They are the moments when we must prove to our customers that SAS is their best alternative.

Jan Carlzon

#84. Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.

Lauren DeStefano

#85. No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response."
Another few seconds passed.
Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.

Sarah Dessen

#86. You may spend years being somebody to everybody, yet you can't find 60 seconds to be someone to someone else. Find the time today to be somebody's someone.

Robert J. Braathe

#87. Stop thinking about your life in increments. Seconds. Minutes. Days. Look at the bigger picture and embrace whatever time you have. Don't look constantly toward the end. Enjoy the right now.

A Meredith Walters

#88. Their kisses had gone on and on - cheeks, neck, mouth, and tongue. Seconds ... minutes ... hours. Then they'd start all over again. Adults were too fixed on the final goal to take that kind of time. Only teenagers afraid of the next step exchanged kisses that lasted forever.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#89. 17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

Bob Costas

#90. He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

David Coleman

#91. You made good time from Portland." In seconds, she shunted away the brief flicker of remembered heat from her gaze and became as coolly polite as her downstairs neighbor. "I was afraid you'd be ready to string me up if I didn't hurry." "I

RaeAnne Thayne

#92. I do love acting the two seconds that you are in front of the camera - and this is going to sound like I'm complaining, and I don't want that because I'm blessed to even have a job - but there is a lot of down-time when you're just sitting in your trailer.

Rene Russo

#93. I enjoy meeting new people and feeling free to be myself for five seconds every single time. After that, they're not new anymore.

Robin Sacredfire

#94. As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.

Guy Mowbray

#95. I don't think you should spend that much time in the gym. Don't sit around between sets too long. If you want to burn some calories, keep the sets tight. Give yourself 30 seconds to a minute between each set. Supersetting is brilliant.

Luke Evans

#96. In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to look a little more beautiful. It's just compressing time into seconds.

Henry Selick

#97. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time does not fluctuate. It moves on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And

S.C. Stephens

#98. On either side in Time, there's nothing similar to Now, only memories or imaginings . The place you were ten seconds ago has vanished, and what is the place ten seconds ahead? There is nothing there. It's very odd.

Arthur J. Deikman

#99. It is not money that is been jeopardized on daily basis, it is actually 86,400 seconds of your life. You are given that amount of life every day in time not in money.

Sunday Adelaja

#100. Life is in time; seconds, minutes and hours

Sunday Adelaja

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