Top 1200 Ticking Time Bombs Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

As terrifying as sharks are, I find it far more terrifying, the idea of being trapped on the bottom of the ocean with a ticking clock and running out of air.

Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!

Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

When those four bombs fell, I was in the middle and I should have died.

Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

Why should I worry about the biological clock ticking? Saif is 10 years older. He should be worried.

We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Where once Lego offered a whimsical form of escapism into the world of the subconscious, encouraging creativity and imagination, it's transformed into a rigid 'box ticking' discipline where children are encouraged to build by conformity.

In one way, we're on an upward swing, but at the same time there's still a lot of evil that goes on in the world. I think it's definitely heading in a better direction, but it seems to take so long for all the people with the power, who control the negative side of life and all the bad inventions they have like guns and bombs and hate. But there has to be a balance. We've got to all try harder to manifest more love in order to counteract all that.

We used to fight with Pakistan with bombs. Now we are fighting with them on the playing ground.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.

Louder Than Bombs' shows our inner shadows.

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.

There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.

Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.

Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate

It's kind of like when a clock battery runs down. The hour and minute hands don't disappear, but they don't keep ticking either. They freeze on the last minute they measured.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.

When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.

Doing a play in New York is ticking off a major, major bucket list thing for me.

I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.

I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

You can't win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily.

I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.

For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.

The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.

'Cyberwar' has nothing to do with the destruction brought about by bombs and grenades and so on.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

It`s nice to get president candidates` attention to infrastructure need which is really a ticking time bomb in America. But as important as the dollar amounts are, we need to know that this money is gonna go directly to cities. So we`re gonna be able to put it to use. In previous administrations and in previous efforts on infrastructure, the money has gone through states and it never seems to find its way to the nation`s cities.

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.