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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.
Anyone who bombs is my friend.
The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why but the editorialists forget it terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — © Haruki Murakami
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.
When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.
With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.
The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.
I had neck surgery and I'm not freaking stupid. I get that my window is smaller than it was and my bump card is ticking.
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think. — © Andy Serkis
35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think.
Putin drops bombs. We drop leaflets.
Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people must unite or they will perish.
The real bombs are my books, not me.
How many n-bombs are dropped? It depends on what I post.
Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.
I think my biological clock ticking is more worrying for me than getting the right roles.
I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
I know what I want, and the performance side is more important than ticking the money box.
Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.
After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.
After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like
Sundays kill more people than bombs.
I could never have imagined that, so early in my career, that I'd be ticking off boxes that I've dreamed about since I was a little girl.
The bombs were coming-and so was I.
Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets
I like to throw bombs.
You don't fight ideas with bombs.
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
We like to set off bombs.
The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?
It's very good for one's brain and muscular system to work in harmony. If you keep up your playing it just keeps things ticking over.
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour. — © Henry James
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
At the time, we were mad at Moammar Gadhafi, which resulted in us bombing all over Libya and killing a bunch of people, but not him. Then Ronald Reagan gets up and says we're not trying to kill him, we're just dropping bombs. You can kill all the Libyans you want, but legally you can't try to kill the leader.
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.
I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It's bad news. The worst. It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.
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 the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.
I couldn't have thrown that bomb. I was at home making bombs
There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.
To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it came to really new ideas or inventions. A common joke of the time [mid 1940s] said that the Russians could not surreptitiously introduce nuclear bombs in suitcases into the United States because they had not yet been able to perfect a suitcase.
You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage. — © Alexander Gustafsson
You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.
When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane
I don't regret setting bombs.
I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.
I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?
When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.
The savages don't have atom bombs.
The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.
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