Time Bomb Quotes

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

Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb.

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

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.

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.

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!

Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn’t care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.

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.

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.

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

I never like to talk about things until we’re already successful. The moment you announce what you’re thinking about doing, you’ve already created a ticking time bomb.

China has become a ticking time bomb, facing many wars within, triggered by a number of internal ticking economic and demographic tinderboxes that threaten to bring on that which the Chinese people fear most – ‘chaos’ or ‘luan.’

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

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.

By the time I was 20 I wanted to be in my first Hollywood blockbuster. Achieving that by 24 is amazing, by God’s grace – but you’re running on a ticking time bomb.

I think dementia is the major healthcare threat to our economy and our security. It’s a ticking time bomb – we have a whole generation of baby boomers that are going to age, many progressing to get Alzheimer’s – which disproportionately affects women and minorities.

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.

Time Bomb encapsulates everything I have learned over the years and wished I could find in a capsule collection. It’s the absolute best skincare and body products I could envisage – and I am fussy. I am now able to indulge my love of beauty products and call it research.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now – a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today.

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.

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

Kimi is a great driver like Fernando, but together, they could be a time bomb for Ferrari.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

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

Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing… is also a ticking time bomb of frustration… You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation.

I’m proud of what I’ve done in Jordan, but the region itself is sitting on a time bomb.

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

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

We’re creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It’s like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb.