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“The Seconds that tick as the clock moves along Are Privates who march with a spirit so strong. The Minutes are Captains. The Hours of the day Are Officers brave, who lead on to the fray. So, remember, when tempted to loiter and dream You've an army at hand; your command is supreme; And question yourself, as it goes on review-- Had it helped in the fight with the best it could do?”

Dream Hands Remember Moving Spirit Fighting Strong Hours Minutes Goes On Army Brave Supreme Command Clock March Reviews Seconds Officers Captains Tempted Remember When Tick Fray

Author:Philander Chase Johnson

“Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.”

Mean Lasts Next Fun Fashion Vanity Folly Seconds Ambitious Disguise Last Words Cunning Gorgeous Innuendo

Author:Barbara Kruger

“In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.”

Ifs Two Three Chance Views Steps Taken Dying My Family Poison Seconds Usual Staff

Author:Erwin Rommel

“Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.”

States Grows Hours Differences Common Watches Taste Judgment Mark Titles Distinction Seconds Temper Smallest Refined Ingenious Cultivation Stationary Hume

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“When you bounce your eyes away from a sexual image, immediately pull from your memory a pure image. Maybe a wedding picture, or a vacation experience with your family, or your buddies. There are thousands of positive images you can pull from your memory within seconds to replace the sexual images you're tempted with.”

Eye Memories Pure Our Family Seconds Vacation Tempted Buddy Our Memories Bounce Positive Image Wedding Pictures

Author:Steve Arterburn

“There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Reality Artist Sex Subjects Changed Research Reflection Core Seconds

Author:Russell Simmons

“I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.”

Book Different Reading Father Lost Causes Sadness Taste Six Eating Agree Cooking Cooks Obsessed Kitchen Seconds Recipes Tasting Eating Food Happiness Sadness

Author:Richard Simmons

“I ask two questions when I am confronting life on a moment to moment basis when something important is happening. (1) What is factually happening right now? (2) What does my soul know about this and want me to know about this? It is amazing that when I give myself 20-25 seconds to seriously consider these questions, almost instantly I will arrive at a deeper awareness and a richer understanding of what is happening right now - from the soul's level of awareness.”

Knows Want Giving Doe Two Important Soul Moments Asks Understanding Levels Awareness Right Now Happenings Bases Deeper My Soul Seconds Want Me Confronting

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“You want attention, you want to grab some of that airspace that exists out there in a world that's very difficult to get it because it's so competitive and to get it for more than a few seconds. Any attention is good and that can be what we would normally consider as bad attention so I wanted to make you aware of that dynamic.”

World Want Wanted Difficult Attention Seconds

Author:Robert Greene

“Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!”

Gone Our Lives Seconds

Author:Ingrid Betancourt

“With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.”

Ifs Matter Jobs Audience Laughing Five Love You Who You Are Seconds Clapping

Author:Aubrey Plaza

“Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.”

Lasts Three Seconds

Author:Robert Shaw

“If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.”

Ifs Can Do Seconds Can Do Something

Author:Joanne Froggatt

“It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.”

Writing Long Film Fall Three Actors Stuff Views Millions Video Seconds Bowls Toilets Kitten Good Actors Short Films

Author:Ben Schwartz

“The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In one of the commercials, you see George Bush for thirty seconds. In another commercial, you get to see George Bush for sixty seconds - kind of like his stint in the National Guard.”

Kind Running Television Election Campaigns Thirty Seconds Sixty National Guard Television Commercials

Author:David Letterman

“When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants - hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing - I wasnt good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.”

Waiting New York Aspect Moved Train Guitar Restaurants Seconds Chorus

Author:Michael Weatherly

“The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.”

Age Stuck Old Age Seconds Fifteen New Age Ovens Microwaves

Author:James Randi

“It's just human nature - isn't it? - to be more attracted to something that's taboo. If someone tells you not to smoke, you wanna smoke. If they say, 'Don't do drugs,' you wanna do drugs. That's why I've always thought that the best way to stop people taking drugs is to legalise the fucking things. It would take people about five seconds to realise that being an addict is a terribly unattractive and pathetic way to be, whereas at the moment it still has that kind of rebel cool vibe to it, y'know?”

People Ifs Knows Way Humans Kind Stills Moments Five Human Nature Kings Drug Best Way Smoke Realising Seconds Rebel Addict Pathetic Taboo Unattractive

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“My son called to me that God was inside his red fire engine. He wanted to show me. I did move as fast as I could, spilling like water through the kitchen door into a summer day, but God had left by the time I got there. My son smiled, told me I'd missed him by seconds.”

Shows Wanted Moving Left Water Fire Doors Son Summer Red Kitchen My Son Seconds Engines Show Me Summer Days Spilling

Book:Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

Source: Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

“We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.”

Art Hands Together Fall Air Horrible Martial Arts Seconds Wrestling Scream

Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels

“17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.”

Running Games Left Numbers Seconds Chicago Championship Jordan Utah Nba Championships

Author:Bob Costas

“I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the Time Warp Trio novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.”

Writing Years Littles Two Book Inspiration School Novel Four Taught Ten Take Me Seconds Flash Apartment Elementary School Warp Trios

Author:Jon Scieszka

“First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.”

People Firsts Two Matter Minutes Size Impression Experts Seconds First Impression

Author:Elliott Abrams

“Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.”

Song Minutes Seconds Loving You Replay

Author:Lauryn Hill

“You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds”

Goal Cases Football Score Seconds

Author:Alex McLeish

“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.”

Ifs Giving Years Hard Problem Running Kids Given Groups Minutes Giving Up Tests Math Seconds Given Up Math Problems

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent, and within 30 seconds you could tell whether they were good or not, but with acting you have to give them the right part.”

Giving Acting Talent Instruments Sticks Musical Seconds Musical Instruments Showcase

Author:Ed Sheeran

“The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.”

Ifs Way Years Humans May Earth Lasts Universe Sun Minutes Locals Seconds Cosmic September June July August December January Calendars Last Minute Milky Way Local History January 1st

Author:Carl Sagan

“Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds”

Art Hours Magic Art Is Seconds

Book:The seventh horse, and other tales

Source: The seventh horse, and other tales

“The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.”

Social Difficult Sides Dark Taken Media Social Media Proportion Seconds Dark Side Of Context

Author:Nicola Formichetti

“When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.”

Knows Pain Process Deals Brain Compassion Evolution Evidence Species Speed Faster Seconds Physical Pain Mental Pain

Author:Antonio Damasio

“I can put up a blog in 10 seconds.”

I Can Seconds Blogs

Author:Burton Cummings

“I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didnt stop till it was over.”

Cry Seconds

Author:Joel Siegel

“There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.”

World Use Certain Hours Differences Common Four Minutes This World Twenties Seconds Sixty Sixty Minutes

Author:Lou Holtz

“The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.”

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.”

Ifs May Moments Use Path Clear Judgment Beats Mark Checks Pity Flight Clock Gentle Crush Seconds Pace Strokes Hammers Pulse Spooky Old Time

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

“[Electronic newspapers will bring] plenty of ulcers for journalists because they'll have new deadlines every 60 seconds. It'll be a race to file. On the other hand, because space is infinite there will hopefully be more room for thoughtful pieces, longer pieces, the kind that a journalist wishes he or she could do but doesn't have the space.”

Kind Hands Wish Space Rooms Race Pieces Infinite Newspapers Plenty Hopefully Journalist Thoughtful Seconds Files Deadline Ulcers

Author:Russ Wilcox

“It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [...] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.”

Looks May Important Running Minutes Stupid Important Things Distance Seconds Afterlife Unforgiving Kipling

Author:Stephen Fry

“I'm a facist about spoilers. I'm the biggest pain in the ass to the marketing and promotions department. If I had my way, the commercials would be 30 seconds of black with a few words on them.”

Ifs Way Would Be Pain Black Marketing Ass My Way Department Seconds Promotion Few Words Spoilers

Author:Brian Austin Green

“The real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature. But in order to do that, we have to slice away at our egos and try to get them down to a manageable size, and then still work some practiced light meditation. So real religion is about reducing our egos, whereas all the churches are interested in is egotistical activities, like getting as many members and raising as much money and becoming as important and high-profile and influential as possible.”

“At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.”

“I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.”

Littles Care Mother House Rooms Cry My Friends Thirty Forty Bottles Seconds Closets Sucker Germs One On One Pacifiers

Book:Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

Source: Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

“The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.”

Hours Prayer Minutes Tests Meetings Our Time Seconds Sixty Devotional Sixty Minutes

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.”

Firsts Winning Given Loses Audience Battle Seconds Presentation Public Speaking Win Or Lose

Book:Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

Source: Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

“When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just change my world in seconds.”

World Feels Different Walks Seconds

Author:Albert Hammond, Jr.

“Not only do I recommend Wendell Berry to anyone who will talk to me for more than seven seconds, but I buy his books in quantity and send them to people. I bought a few dozen of his newest, "Our Only World."”

People World Book Seven Seconds Dozen Quantity Talk To Me Berries

Author:Nick Offerman

“I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little... We measure our performance in seconds.”

Mind Littles Bigs Actors Felt Directors Performances Tiny Seconds Big Picture

Author:William H. Macy

“[Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.”

World Process Six Complexes Posts Seconds Engines Google Recipes Search Engine

Author:Vince Gilligan

“Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's so much easier to get lost in it. That's why actors love doing theater so much, I guarantee you. It's refreshing to be able to do something where you don't have to be stopped every two seconds, and you can just play it out and it's done.”

Two Done Play Whole Running Able Actors Lost Easier Scene Pages Theater Guarantees Seconds Refreshing Alleyways

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you don't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face.”

Source: The Secret Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 5

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