Seconds Quotes
890 quotes by 723 authors
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Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.
— Tim Bowler
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Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun? You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride…
— Takehiko Inoue
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God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted…
— Heinrich Heine
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We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we're both thinking the same thing. Jacob leans…
— Laurie Faria Stolarz
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I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator,…
— Mary Karr
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Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the…
— Garth Nix
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I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines…
— Haruki Murakami
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And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just…
— Sue Miller
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Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and inviting, and in…
— Jonathan Tropper
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Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.
— Ray Bradbury
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She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the…
— Rick Riordan
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I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do…
— David Guterson
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Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.
— D. J. MacHale
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Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.
— Richelle Mead
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I unfolded the note, and it took me a few seconds to decipher Adrian’s writing. If he did write me a dating proposal, I really…
— Richelle Mead
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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…
— Cecelia Ahern
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I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.
— Salvador Plascencia
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The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the…
— Christopher Pike
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Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds;…
— Virginia Woolf
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