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  • 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.

    Children   Years   Bombs  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

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

    Movie   Stars   People  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Attitude   Military   War  
  • 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.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • 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!

    Drama   Bombs   May  
  • 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.

  • The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

    Fetus   Use   Bombs  
    "Help From The Unborn Fetal-cell" by Joe Levine, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.
  • A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

    George Weigel (2009). “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II”, p.343, Zondervan
  • The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

    Truth   Church   Bombs  
  • 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.

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

    Children   Taken   Bangs  
  • 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!

    Children   Dark   Ducks  
  • 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.

    Mind   Bombs   Matter  
  • 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.

    "A Fireside Chat With Charles Lloyd". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 17, 2004.
  • Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb.

    Book   News   Bombs  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • 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.

    Bombs   Lifestyle   Made  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been routinely murdered, bound, starved, raped, mutilated, battered, and tortured by their parents and other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippled adults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restage their early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars.

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

    Men   Foundation   Bombs  
    "Space and the Spirit of Man". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1965.
  • 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.

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

    Two   Evil   Choices  
    "Torture? No. Except …" by Charles Krauthammer, jewishworldreview.com. May 1, 2009.
  • Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

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

    Source: www.elle.com
  • Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

  • Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

    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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