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

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

topic: Two, Evil, Choices, Divulge, Ticking Time

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

topic: Drama, Bombs, May, Ticking Time, Ticking Time Bombs

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

- George Weigel

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

topic: Bombs, Dramatic, Theological, Time Bomb

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.

- Jack Nicholson

topic: Stars, People, Bombs, Movie Sets, Time Bomb

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

- Barack Obama

topic: Target, Bombs, Used, Acts Of Terror, 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.

- James Bovard

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

topic: Rights, Government, Waiting, Democratic Government, Ticking Time

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

topic: Men, Foundation, Bombs, Ticking Time, Time Bomb

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

- Abdallah II

topic: Waiting, Bombs, Jerusalem, Time Bomb

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

- Penelope Lively

topic: Photography, Past, Bombs, Cupboards, Time Bomb

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

- Robert Farrar Capon

topic: Truth, Church, Bombs, Time Bomb

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

- Warren Buffett

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

topic: Party, Views, Bombs, Time Bomb

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

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

topic: Character, Sick, Waiting, Burned Out, Time Bomb

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

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

topic: Dream, Children, Careers, Payroll Tax, Ticking Time

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

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Light, Japan, Earthquakes, Containment, Chernobyl

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

topic: Children, Dark, Years, Another Year, Time Bomb

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

- Kimberly Guilfoyle

topic: Book, News, Bombs, Ticking Time, Ticking Time Bombs

Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

- Jack Wild

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

topic: Cancer, Mouths, Heard, Time Bomb

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

topic: Judgement, Bipolar, Identity, Manic Depression, Time Bomb

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

topic: Children, Taken, Bombs, Psychiatric, Depressive

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

topic: Mind, Faults, Bombs, True Peace, Time Bomb

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.

- Ray Comfort

topic: Cancer, Thinking, Smoking, Throat Cancer, Ticking Time Bombs

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.

- Al Gore

topic: Epic, Years, Weather, Extreme Weather, Avert

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.

- Bill Rodgers

topic: Sports, New York, Lines, Time Bomb

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

topic: Attitude, Military, War, Time Bomb

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

- Melanne Verveer

topic: Children, Quality, Bombs, Child Care, Ticking Time

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

- Arthur Caplan

source: "Help From The Unborn Fetal-cell" by Joe Levine, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

topic: Fetus, Use, Bombs, Organ Donation, Ticking Time

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.

- Mary Tyler Moore

topic: Children, Years, Next Year, Personal Time, Time Bomb

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.

- Lloyd deMause

topic: Children, Growing Up, War, Rite, Caregivers