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“Many Christians expend so much energy and worry trying not to sin. The goal is not to try to sin less. In all your efforts to keep from sinning, what are you focusing on? Sin. God wants you to focus on him. To be with him. “Abide in me.” Just relax and learn to enjoy his presence. Every day is a collection of moments, 86,400 seconds in a day. How many of them can you live with God? Start where you are and grow from there. God wants to be with you every moment.”

Want Trying Moments Christian Energy Grows Enjoy Goal Sin Effort Worry Focus Collections Relax Where You Are Seconds Sinning Want To Be With You

Author:John Ortberg

“The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.”

May Hours Differences Watches Minutes Judgment Ordinary Machines Clock Sufficient Seconds Smallest

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.”

Investing Seconds Filters

Author:Warren Buffett

“'Good as Gone' goes from zero to 60 in under six seconds and never lets off the gas! If you like your thrillers filled with nonstop action in a race against time through Europe's underbelly, hop in and take a ride.”

Ifs Action Race Gone Like You Six Europe Filled Gas Hops Zero Seconds Thrillers Race Against Time

Author:Andrew Gross

“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.”

Men Years Soul Running Age Liberty Moral Risk Necks Seconds Heretic Aviator

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask? That was a quality item there, wasn't it? That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with.”

Years Littles Made Self Remember Parent Quality Band Thirds Boxes Mask Seconds Halloween Costumes Items Begging Rubber Self Made Staples Rubber Bands Cardboard Boxes Halloween Costume

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!”

Looks Three Voice Behinds Darkness Four Doors Feet Hero Adults Treats Tricks Tall Seconds Imaginary Halloween Barbarians Conan Trick Or Treat

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!”

Knows Years May Mean Change Hours Knowing Seconds Things Change

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Recently I gave a lecture and a gentleman came to me and asked how I'd like to be remembered, i'd never been asked that before, so I thought for a few seconds. And I said I want to be remembered that I had a great love for my fellow man.”

Men Want Love Said Fellows Remembered Gentleman Seconds Fellow Man Lectures Great Love

Author:Billy Casper

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.”

Three Ten Hundred Nine Seconds Yards Sprinters

Book:I Have Changed

Source: I Have Changed

“Right now you are in a completely different reality than you were 10 seconds ago.”

Different Reality Right Now Seconds Different Realities

Author:Bentinho

“Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'”

Fire Sight Aviation Seconds Combat

Author:Adolph Malan

“Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.”

Levels Areas Aviation Seconds Combat

Author:Adolph Malan

“We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.”

World Hard Happens Kids Age Earth Dies Water Five Planets Clean Access Relate Seconds Our Planet Clean Water Sanitation

Author:Matt Damon

“Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.”

World Whole Action Film Reading Too Much Seconds Tick Rumination

Author:Alan Tudyk

“No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.”

Knows Children Walks Safe Capable Leaving Secure Thirty Seconds

Author:Anne Enright

“There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my heart forever, or wherever it is, and that's worth it.”

Want Heart Remember Forever Couple My Heart Seconds Worth It

Author:Peter Stormare

“You get the most 3D effect when it starts about three to four seconds, that's when it starts feeling 3D. And then what you do, quick shots are always flat.”

Feelings Three Four Effects Shots Flats Seconds

Author:Michael Bay

“But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man will rise from earth by means of wings, if only for a few seconds, and mark that historical moment which heralds the inauguration of a new era in our civilization.”

Ifs Men Firsts Mean Moments Earth Possibility Civilization Mark Wings Historical Eras Aviation Seconds Investigation Predictions Solemn New Era Inauguration

Author:Otto Lilienthal

“All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there's one funny joke, I'll shoot five because I don't know if the one I like is going to work. I'll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn't work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.”

Ifs Knows Way Long Whole Three Hours Lines Five Cutting Minutes Scene Jokes Shots Versions Get Back Seconds Testing Going To Work Five Minutes Biggest Fear Funny Jokes Preview

Author:Judd Apatow

“1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.”

People Children Dies Five Billions Seconds

Author:Jean Ziegler

“I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.”

Thinking Looks Hard Fighting Careers Defined Seconds High Points

Author:Mike Tyson

“It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.”

Seems Earth Lasts Found Peace Capable Seconds Old Time

Book:Schindler's List

Source: Schindler's List

“I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can picture yourself having fun in an above-ground pool. If it was 31 seconds, the actor would say "The water is only up to here? What do I do now? Throw the ball back to Jimmy? Or put some goggles on and look at his feet?"”

Ifs Looks Long Humor Funny Actors Fun Water Saws Feet Amount Balls Having Fun Seconds Pool Maximum Jimmy Goggles

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I like those blow-up beds. "This becomes a full size bed in three minutes!" Well, a mattress kicks your ass. Zero seconds. "Yeah, but you can store this thing." You can store a bed, too - in the bedroom.”

Wells Humor Funny Three Minutes Bed Yeah Size Blow Stores Ass Kicks Zero Seconds Bedroom Mattresses

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader.”

People Thinking Want Two Bigs Might Realizing Reader Approach Seconds Bowls Embarrassing Toilets

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast, then."”

Humor Funny Lasts Tables Seven Dinner Seconds Weekend Marine Toasts

Author:Margaret Smith

“How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.”

Ifs Trying Years Hands Funny Remember Science Forget Half Technology Percent Seconds

Author:Tom Duff

“Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10 hours. You need the minimum amount of education and training, and society needs to find a way to study music - not only the performances, but how to compose, how to understand why Mozart was great at what he did.”

Way Needs Hours Study Amount Training Performances Staring Seconds Minimum Classical Music

Author:Carlo Grante

“TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I'd race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!”

Ifs Home Would Be Race Tvs Huge Scene News Draws Police Seconds Policemen Magnet

Author:Jerry Springer

“I never have free time, I don't know about you. You ever go to the cash machine, there's two people in line in front of you and you get kinda flustered, you're like "Forget it! I'm not standing here for 40 seconds. I got things to do, okay?"”

People Knows Two Humor Funny Lines Forget Fronts Standing Okay Machines Things To Do Seconds Cash Forget It Free Time

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds later they come alight again, well the other day there was a fire at the factory that makes them.”

Knows Wells Humor Funny Fire Couple Blow Tricks Seconds Candle Factories

Author:Tommy Cooper

“I shot a lot of commercials and sometimes I enjoy the commercial shooting and sometimes I really hate it, but in thirty seconds or one minute, you can make some remarkable work shooting in one or two or three days.”

Two Sometimes Hate Three Enjoy Minutes Shots Shooting Thirty Remarkable Seconds One Minute

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“They seal the subway change-booth guy up inside this thing with bullet-proof glass, closed in on all sides, it's like some kind of Houdini torture tank of doom. How do you breathe in there? It looks like if you put your hand over the change slot, you could suffocate him in thirty seconds.”

Ifs Looks Kind Hands Funny Guy Sides Comedy Glasses Breathe Proof Thirty Torture Seconds Bullets Doom Tanks Seals Subway Houdini

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Dedication and time management are two of the biggest things. I hate being late for anything. If anything, I prefer to be ten minutes early rather than thirty seconds late. I'm also very dedicated and I want to do my best in everything I do. I believe swimming has helped transfer that into my life as well.”

Ifs Want Believe Wells Two Hate I Believe Minutes Ten Late I Hate Management Thirty Seconds Swimming Time Management Dedicated Dedication Transfers Things I Hate

Author:Liam Tancock

“Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.”

Men Two Hard Three Left Five Team Ice Hockey Seconds Units Centre Right Wing Defenders Left Wing Ice Hockey Goalies

Author:Gerad Adams

“I'm not always looking for the laugh. I'm not the guy who sits in and listens to conversations and wants to jump in with something hilarious every two seconds. I actually do listen to people.”

People Want Two Guy Laughing Conversation Seconds

Author:Jim Carrey

“If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'”

People Ifs Want Political Guy Water Son Seconds Funeral Dump Nancy Your Son

Author:Peter King

“Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine-a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come...believe in them. They reflect your true nature.”

“I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.”

May Littles Dies Sides Ten Heavy Actresses Screens Breathing Explanation Seconds I May Not Be Asthma Simulate

Author:Candice Bergen

“Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat racing is speed not margin. Boat X beats boat Y by two lengths over 1000 meters in a time of 2:54. After exchanging "Dave" from X to Y for "Scott," Boat X beats boat Y by one length in a time of 2:51. From the rower's perspective, the result is that Dave beats Scott by a length. But in Mike's eyes, Scott beats Dave because on the second piece, X was three seconds faster-even though it only beat Y by a length.”

Two Hard Eye Three Results Pieces Perspective Beats Determine Speed Factors Boat Faster Seats Length Seconds Racing Mike Margins Selected Meter Rowing Dave Exchanging

Author:Chris Ahrens

“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.”

Thinking Needs Feels Art Running Grows Water Media Ten Skills Perception Messages Mass Opposites Seconds Hook Make You Think Iconic Mass Media Sensational Vases Doggedness

Author:Robert Hughes

“Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.”

Years Sometimes Humor Ten Seconds Dilemma

Book:The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff

Source: The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff

“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now.'”