Seconds Quotes

890 quotes by 723 authors

If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something… — Robert Wright
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I… — Jack Kerouac
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life.… — Peter Cameron
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… — Brad Pitt
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a… — Aldous Huxley
Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that… — Mark Haddon
I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of… — Gerard De Nerval
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,… — Pema Chodron
He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to… — Haruki Murakami
Mahoney: "Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait." Mr. Magorium: "No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our… — Suzanne Weyn
In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of… — Mikhail Bulgakov
They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only… — Walker Percy
I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will… — Sue Monk Kidd
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.… — Meg Cabot
Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years.… — Cecelia Ahern
As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.'… — Lauren Weisberger
That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now… — Douglas Adams
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a… — Markus Zusak
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. — Jacqueline Susann
We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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