Seconds Quotes

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their blade, the length of their arms, etc.

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

One of the most exciting moments was standing out on top of the world, 30 seconds before stepping off.

Every 17 seconds a child dies on this planet from no clean drinking water. Good. Let's try to speed it up... there are too many people.

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.

You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.

Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.

Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

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.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

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

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.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.

I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them.

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

I had an Aston Martin phone worth ?15,000 given to me as a present. I dropped it in a gin and tonic about 15 seconds after opening it.

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

Seconds of focused pleasureable visualization is stronger than 2000 hours of working to obtain a goal

There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.