Time Bomb Quotes

• Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Two, Evil, Choices

  "Torture? No. Except …" by Charles Krauthammer, jewishworldreview.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Don't you know. I am a ticking time bomb. I'm going to explode. This time, I may never be able to recover from it!

  Lee In-woo

  Drama, Bombs, May

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• A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

  George Weigel

  Bombs, Dramatic, Theological

  George Weigel (2009). “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II”, p.343, Zondervan

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• Una estrella en un plató de cine es como una bomba de relojería. Hay que desactivar esa bomba para que la gente pueda acercarse a ella sin miedo.

  Jack Nicholson

  Cine, Estrellas, Gente

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• Cada vez que se utilizan bombas contra civiles es un acto de terror.

  Barack Obama

  Target, Bombs, Used

  "The Boston Bombing and the Failure of the Military/Intelligence Complex" by Renee Parsons, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

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• Un gobierno democrático que no respeta ningún límite a su poder es una bomba de relojería, a la espera de destruir los derechos para cuya protección fue creado.

  James Bovard

  Rights, Government, Waiting

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.10, Macmillan

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• The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Foundation, Bombs

  "Space and the Spirit of Man". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1965.

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• Jerusalén es una bomba de relojería que me temo está a punto de estallar.

  Abdalá II

  Waiting, Bombs, Jerusalem

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• The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

  Penélope Lively

  Photography, Past, Bombs

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• The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Truth, Church, Bombs

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• I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Views, Bombs

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons

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• I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before.

  Charles Lloyd

  Character, Sick, Waiting

  "A Fireside Chat With Charles Lloyd". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 17, 2004.

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• If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.

  John McCain

  Dream, Children, Careers

  "McCain offers 'new fiscal conservatism' with tax plan" by Douglas S. Wood, www.cnn.com. January 11, 2000.

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• 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.

  Michio Kaku

  Light, Japan, Earthquakes

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Dark, Ducks

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• El libro Clinton Cash había sido promocionado por Rand Paul y Fox News como una bomba de relojería.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Book, News, Bombs

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it. What I learned very quickly was that my lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb. I was a heavy smoker and an even heavier drinker and apparently together they are a deadly mixture.

  Jack Wild

  Bombs, Lifestyle, Made

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder or manic depression or Bipolar divide or mental illness. How can I find an identity in that? It certainly isn't something I can bring up in conversation, without a reaction of judgement or even fear.

  Paul Dalio

  Judgement, Bipolar, Identity

  Fuente: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me.

  Trisha Goddard

  Children, Taken, Bangs

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• For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Mind, Bombs, Matter

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• Cada uno de nosotros debe pensar en el futuro. Cada calada a un cigarrillo es otro tick más cerca de una bomba de relojería de terribles consecuencias. A Christopher Hitchens no le importaban las consecuencias de fumar cigarrillos. Trágicamente, murió de cáncer de garganta en diciembre de 2011.

  Ray Comfort

  Cancer, Thinking, Smoking

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• La humanidad está sentada sobre una bomba de relojería. Si la inmensa mayoría de los científicos del mundo están en lo cierto, sólo tenemos diez años para evitar una catástrofe de grandes proporciones que podría llevar a todo el sistema climático de nuestro planeta a una espiral de destrucción épica, con condiciones meteorológicas extremas, inundaciones, sequías, epidemias y olas de calor mortíferas que nunca antes habíamos experimentado: una catástrofe provocada por nosotros mismos.

  Al Gore

  Epic, Years, Weather

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• La línea de salida del Maratón de New York es como una bomba de relojería gigante detrás de ti a punto de estallar. Es la salida más espectacular del deporte.

  Bill Rodgers

  Deportes, New York, Giants

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• There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.

  Philip Caputo

  Attitude, Military, War

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• The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

  Melanne Verveer

  Children, Quality, Bombs

  Fuente: www.elle.com

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