Quotation Explorer - 'Seconds'

An emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course. One and a half minutes, that's all. When it lasts any longer, which it usually does, it's because we've chosen to rekindle it. - Pema Chödrön
It's like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay... well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds too late to actually do anything to stop the horrific avalanche of shit-you-shouldn't- say-out-loud-but-I-just-did. - Jenny Lawson
I write in seconds. I don’t stop. I don’t think. I simply write and when it comes, it flows and it makes sense because it’s genuine. I don’t understand thought-out poetry. It doesn’t seem real to me. - Dominic Riccitello
Fear is a state of mind. There is nothing real about it. Welcome it in, 60 seconds passes, and as your guest politely ask it to leave. It will leave every single time!! - Christopher Saleh
God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you? - William Arthur Ward
You have exactly 10 seconds to change that look of disgusting pity, into one of enormous respect! - Max Bialystock
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? - William Arthur Ward
Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms. - Jorge Ramos
Saying 'I love you' only takes seconds, but proving it takes a lifetime. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight. - Shane L. Koyczan
Those minute seconds, flip minutes into hours; hours turn into days, weeks, years, and all these happen in a fraction of a life; placed meagerly, amid this endless Universe. - Aniruddha Sastikar
Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds. - Paulo Coelho
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. - Sam Levenson
People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water. - David Bowie
GreenHollyWood asked me "How I sleep?", after all, after this horror and terror. The truth is that I close the one eye 1-2 seconds go and then the other... and I sleep. To to don't forget, if we will be friends I enjoy the horror..., I like to see myself scared!? - Deyth Banger
Act like everyone you meet is an angel, because sometimes they will be an angel. Would you cuss out that person if you knew that they were an angel that was about to save your life in a few seconds? - Preston Wagner
Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods a few seconds after he took Viagra. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
She looked him directly in the eye. A colleague of hers had once told her that eye contact with another person for more than six seconds without looking away or blinking revealed a desire for either sex or murder. - Lisa Genova
When I thought I felt better, grief shot its silver tip arrow at my heart to remind me that it was still there.Excerpt From: Holster, S.G. Thirty Seconds to Die. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.Check out this book on the iBooks Store - S.G. Holster
Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains. - Paolo Giordano
The western average human lifespan is 2.5 billion seconds (or 77 years). Here are 2 time-dilating perception strategies to enhance one's allocated living time: 1.Make choices. 2.Focus on your best qualities. - Nodas
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds. - Russell T. Davies
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it. - Margaret Thatcher
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
After reading some of my stories, I once had a friend say to me, "I'd love to spend five minutes in your head to see what's going on in there." I warned them, "If you spent five seconds in my mind you'd probably run out screaming and never speak to me again. - Mark W. Boyer
God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you - William Arthur Ward
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
Even just taking 20 seconds to truly appreciate your surroundings makes a world of difference. - Russell Eric Dobda
Even the strongest hearts can be fragile. It takes only seconds to hurt someone. But sometimes it takes years to repair the damage. Cherish the hearts that love you. - Kiran Shaikh
When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm? - Cat Johnson
Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it will only heal after years - Rei Anthony Albon
A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it’s irrelevant. But to the right audience, it’s a passion. - David Brier
Hasn't it dawned on your twilight mind,even in the seconds span of a falling star, that you might be missing something more than your sleep? - Heather Johann
You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy. - John Green
Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter. - Mahogany SilverRain
Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds. - Unknown
Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies. - R.M. Ford
The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers! - Ashwin Sanghi
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made - Dan Simmons
It takes time, hard-work and a lot of sacrifices to upgrade a Curriculum Vitae,however the day you lose your honor in the society, it will take only few seconds to make it become useless. - m.k dindoyal
Healing is that place where we step into 20 seconds of insane courage because we need to either close that door or hold it open. Regardless of the outcome, the truth is what sets you free never the fear of not knowing. - Shannon L. Alder
Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds. - Bruce H. Jackson
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. - Dave Barry
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold. - Brad Pitt
The only person can love you in the world is Your mother (real)She forgets with in seconds the bad behavior you did wtih her, she comes backs again with love! - akshay Me
Every time when you think,Think about every first 20 seconds of your best Moments in your life time. - Jerril Thomas Abraham
If you have sixty seconds worth of distance...run! - Chris Stevenson
There is nothing such as Happiness, its just a state of mind that lasts for a fraction of seconds....! - Milind K
Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because that our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive that they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off. - Ronald Reagan
Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.
There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul. - Neal A. Maxwell
Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it takes years to heal - Rei Anthony Albon
Compared to Eternity, The seconds of "Now" are more valuable than all the money and valuables in the world combined. - Matthew Donnelly
Life is merely a minute long; Don't waste your seconds. - Andrea L'Artiste
My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion. - Petra Kidd
A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000. - Timothy Egan
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