For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Their gaze met for a few seconds. The exchange was as warm and friendly as a pair of automated range finders getting a mutual target lock.
dan abnettIf you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And which is more you'll be a Man, my son!
rudyard kiplingTheir gaze met for a few seconds. The exchange was as warm and friendly as a pair of automated range finders getting a mutual target lock.
dan abnettMy sculpture can last for days or a few seconds — what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
andy goldsworthyI have a phobia of anything that doesn't die in the microwave after five seconds.
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.)
Anatol RapoportWhat goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.
alex trebekHuman sense organs can receive only news of difference, and the differences must be coded into events in time (i.e., into changes) in order to be perceptible. Ordinary static differences that remain constant for more than a few seconds become perceptible, only by scanning. Similarly, very slow changes become perceptible only by a combination of scanning and bringing together observations from separated moments in the continuum of time.
Gregory BatesonI have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.
Andrea DworkinI am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident […] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity.
stephen jay gouldIf I could have those sixty seconds within Bradypus ... would I not receive a plea for humans to pause, reassess - and above all, slow down?
stephen jay gouldIt's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …
linus torvaldsWhoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.
linus torvaldsIf you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.
Bruce WillisHyenas are slow in their pace, and altogether inactive; I have often seen a few terriers keep them at bay, and bite them severely by the hind quarters; their jaws, however, are exceedingly strong, and a single bite, without holding on, more than a few seconds, is sufficient to kill a large dog. They stink horribly, make no earths of their own, but lie under rocks, or resort to the earths of wolves, as foxes do to those of badgers, and it is not uncommon to find wolves and hyenas in the same bed of earths.
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
One minute, thirty seconds to Cloud boundary.
I wasn't looking for victory... just a few seconds... I give you all that I am, all that I was. Restore what has been corrupted
I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.