“Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?” YearsWarStatesPresidentInterestLosesFireMinutesSecurityPolicyColdWeaponsResponseNuclearRussiaWarningNuclear WeaponsCold WarNational SecuritySeventeenNuclear Bomb Author:Sam Nunn
“Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.” LongStillsBodyFallThreeEnergyStarsMillionsFireMinutesEventsPlanetsTinyBombsAtomsFierceLong AgoOur PlanetFractionsUnstableLumpsHydrogenHydrogen Bomb Author:James Lovelock
“Wood heat is not new. It dates back to a day millions of years ago, when a group of cavemen were sitting around, watching dinosaurs rot. Suddenly, lightning struck a nearby log and set it on fire. One of the cavemen stared at the fire for a few minutes, then said: Hey! Wood heat! The other cavemen, who did not understand English, immediately beat him to death with stones. But the key discovery had been made, and from that day forward, the cavemen had all the heat they needed, although their insurance rates went way up.” WayYearsMadeSaidMillionsFireGroupsMinutesKeysNeededBeatsHumorousSittingDiscoveryYears AgoStonesRateWoodsHeyHeatLightningDinosaursSitting AroundCavemenInsurance Rate Author:Dave Barry
“Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.” MaySchoolMemoriesRoomsFireMinutesColorUniqueAll ThingsBurningFlashSmallestGlobesSpinningFlare Author:Delmore Schwartz
“I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.” WantTryingSaidChallengesPayAcceptingFireMinutesManagementUnionsWhat You WantGet BackPoolTolerateConsistentlyUnemploymentEmployersHiringPrerogative Author:Jimmy Hoffa
“the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.” ThinkingTryingBelieveWellsStillsGodVoiceFireMeditationStreetsMinutesSecurityCallingConceptsSilentSurpriseGods WillDefinedProtestCategoriesWarningGodlyEarthquakesShoutingSmall VoiceSilent Meditation Author:Carter Heyward
“Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger; what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?” ChildrenEnoughWholeBodyWould BeCommonHellFireMinutesBearsFingersFleshMythologyBurningLakesCandleTormentOne MinuteHell FireFire BurningBurning In Hell Book:Sermons on Several Occasions Source: Sermons on Several Occasions
“Wait until the end, like the last two or three minutes of cooking, to add barbecue sauce, so it cooks into your meat. But if you add it too early, it will make your fire flame up. You don't have to slather on the sauce. Just lightly paste each side.” IfsTwoEndsLastsThreeWaitingSidesFireMinutesCookingAddCooksFlamesMeatSauceBarbecueBarbecue Sauce Author:Johnny Trigg
“A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.” WorldWellsTodayNumbersMillionsFireMinutesHorrorEnvyNuclearScalesChinesePoisonLastingSurvivorCommunistElsewhereExplosionsWipeChairmanDevastated Author:John F. Kennedy
“I always wondered if those WWJD bracelets worked, so I bought one the other day. Well, a few minutes later, I was on a plane and this little kid was kicking my seat repeatedly, while his sister sang along with her walkman and their mother just sat there. I almost turned around and went off, and then I caught sight of my bracelet. What would Jesus do? So I lit them on fire and sent them all to Hell.” IfsWellsLittlesKidsMotherJesusHellFireMinutesSightCaughtPlanesSatSeatsLitLittle KidKickingBracelet Author:Daniel Tosh
“I was shocked to find out how many deaths occurred due to fires across the country and how simply they could've been avoided. Knowing how to get out of our homes is important, especially in less than 2 minutes.” ImportantCountryHomeKnowingFireMinutesDuesShockedAvoided Author:Frankie J. Grande
“I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.” SometimesNightSilenceLaughingFireSeeingWeekMinutesWallListeningBusinessmanSaturdayApplauseJust ListenSaturday NightMonologuesBreathtakingSaturday Night Live Author:Norm MacDonald