Ticking Quotes

134 Ticking quotes by 116 unique authors

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy… — Charles Krauthammer
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the… — Robert Lanza
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. — James Thurber
I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much. — Stephen King
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami
We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are… — Rachel Cohn
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into… — John Burroughs
Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down,… — Markus Zusak
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot… — Thornton Wilder
- he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape… — Ken Kesey
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a… — Laura Whitcomb
As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the… — Harper Lee
sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them… — Hunter S. Thompson
Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a… — Haruki Murakami
I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was beating away all… — Lauren Oliver
Do you know what a balance wheel is?” She shook her head slightly. “There’s one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth… — Lisa Kleypas
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths. — Arthur C. Clarke
The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of… — Cornelia Funke
What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to… — Bjork
It's kind of like when a clock battery runs down. The hour and minute hands don't disappear, but they don't keep ticking either. They freeze… — Rachel Vincent
I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room,… — Jenny Downham
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you… — James Patterson
I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us. — James M. Barrie

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