#minute

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#flashes #headed #home #i #knew

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

On time is 10 minutes late. ↗

— Anthony Hitt

#minutes #time

You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#engineer #five #go #goes #know

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. ↗

— William Odom

#always #consideration #few #firing #go

If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared. ↗

— David Axelrod

#completely #consistency #consistent #governing #high

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game. ↗

— Doug Collins

#chance #closing #coaching #course #during

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #faith

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#happens #know #life #matter #minute

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#eleven-minutes #paolo-coelho #treasure #victim #world