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What you wish for can elude you within a blink of an eye if you hesitate. – Sipho P Nkosi	added by SIPHO P NKOSI 6 years ago
We were just singing and suddenly in a blink of (an) eye, smoke, fire everywhere. I didn't realize what's happening until I saw blood and organs of our friends scattered over the ground. – David Saeed	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We don’t blink as much when we look at screens, which causes dryness. – Andrew Holzman	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
These apps are a volume play, the prices are so low that fans don’t even blink, which turns each of them into a potential evangelist for more, provided the experience is rewarding. Every time someone uses them, it’s like a free marketing campaign to all of their followers and friends. – Linda Ong	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
You can turn on the light, in this case it's blue light, and you blink this blue light at this tumor, I believe it's 24 hours, and the tumor goes away. – Tufts Center for Regenerative	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You can do all the research and data collection you want and you will find real quick that a life-threatening scenario can unfold at the blink of an eye and when you least expect it, especially for women – criminals are becoming more violent and more risky with their actions. – Dom Raso	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It was very fast, it was in the blink of an eye. – Chief William McManus	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Digital marketing is still largely a frontier, online brands don’t have the staying power traditional brands once did. They require constant curation and content and can be deeply damaged in the blink of an eye. – Adam Fridman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The slow blink really is an acceptance gesture, they do that when they're absolutely comfortable with you, and they do it with other cats as well. – Gary Weitzman	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Courage is short as life and sudden as the blink of an eye. So enjoy every moment that makes your heart beat faster, cause will be in this moment that you will achieve the true sense of feeling alive. – L.F. Magister	added by L.F. Magister 8 years ago
When a very bright light shines in our face, we blink. We close our eyes. The light is still there, but our eyes reject it because it is too much for them. On the first Easter day, even the apostles and Jesus’ close friends blinked. It took a while to recognize him and to realize what had happened. It was too much to believe until the Lord pressed them with the evidence. Once convinced, they testified to Jesus’ resurrection even at the cost of their lives. – Francis Cardinal George, OMI	added by anonymous 8 years ago
One to three years is a blink of an eye in terms of city developments, so many of these cities still have time to fill and become functional. – Economist Brian Jackson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Things happen so quickly out there and even when I go home, I'll probably blink my eyes and still have to pinch myself to realize what happened, that's why we play the games. This is a special moment. – Matt Stajan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
All the signs are good for a great run 2, in the grand scheme of things, a few weeks delay in humankind's quest to understand our universe is little more than the blink of an eye. – Rolf Heuer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
To yank the bill out of committee and rush it to the floor unilaterally with no input from the Democrats who have worked very hard on this issue makes it clear that Republicans are looking to score cheap political points instead of producing the bipartisan outcome that is Israel's best interest, that action, in the blink of an eye, undermines a tremendous amount of bipartisan effort to move the process forward in a way that kept Democrats and Republicans together. – Adam Jentleson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's the blink of an eye in the life of a nation. – Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They've been hypothesized to act as sun shades, dust catchers and blink-reflex triggers, but there's been no really systematic study of what their true benefits are. – David Hu	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In the end, he's going to be the one to blink, if the market was really concerned then you'd see much more to the downside. – Ken Polcari	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
But, sooner or later, someone is going to have to blink when it comes to the supply of oil, the oil-producing countries are getting slammed. – Michael Ward	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Viktor Orban has done everything, sidelining all principles and rational considerations and shared interests with our allies, to form a good relationship with Putin, but when his interests so dictated, Putin withdrew from this project in the blink of an eye. – Bernadett Szel	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own. – Dick Gregory	added by anonymous 13 years ago

What you wish for can elude you within a blink of an eye if you hesitate.

– Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
6 years ago

We were just singing and suddenly in a blink of (an) eye, smoke, fire everywhere. I didn't realize what's happening until I saw blood and organs of our friends scattered over the ground.

– David Saeed

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We don’t blink as much when we look at screens, which causes dryness.

– Andrew Holzman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

These apps are a volume play, the prices are so low that fans don’t even blink, which turns each of them into a potential evangelist for more, provided the experience is rewarding. Every time someone uses them, it’s like a free marketing campaign to all of their followers and friends.

– Linda Ong

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You can turn on the light, in this case it's blue light, and you blink this blue light at this tumor, I believe it's 24 hours, and the tumor goes away.

– Tufts Center for Regenerative

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can do all the research and data collection you want and you will find real quick that a life-threatening scenario can unfold at the blink of an eye and when you least expect it, especially for women – criminals are becoming more violent and more risky with their actions.

– Dom Raso

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It was very fast, it was in the blink of an eye.

– Chief William McManus

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Digital marketing is still largely a frontier, online brands don’t have the staying power traditional brands once did. They require constant curation and content and can be deeply damaged in the blink of an eye.

– Adam Fridman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The slow blink really is an acceptance gesture, they do that when they're absolutely comfortable with you, and they do it with other cats as well.

– Gary Weitzman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Courage is short as life and sudden as the blink of an eye. So enjoy every moment that makes your heart beat faster, cause will be in this moment that you will achieve the true sense of feeling alive.

– L.F. Magister

added by L.F. Magister
8 years ago

When a very bright light shines in our face, we blink. We close our eyes. The light is still there, but our eyes reject it because it is too much for them. On the first Easter day, even the apostles and Jesus’ close friends blinked. It took a while to recognize him and to realize what had happened. It was too much to believe until the Lord pressed them with the evidence. Once convinced, they testified to Jesus’ resurrection even at the cost of their lives.

– Francis Cardinal George, OMI

added by anonymous
8 years ago

One to three years is a blink of an eye in terms of city developments, so many of these cities still have time to fill and become functional.

– Economist Brian Jackson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Things happen so quickly out there and even when I go home, I'll probably blink my eyes and still have to pinch myself to realize what happened, that's why we play the games. This is a special moment.

– Matt Stajan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

All the signs are good for a great run 2, in the grand scheme of things, a few weeks delay in humankind's quest to understand our universe is little more than the blink of an eye.

– Rolf Heuer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

To yank the bill out of committee and rush it to the floor unilaterally with no input from the Democrats who have worked very hard on this issue makes it clear that Republicans are looking to score cheap political points instead of producing the bipartisan outcome that is Israel's best interest, that action, in the blink of an eye, undermines a tremendous amount of bipartisan effort to move the process forward in a way that kept Democrats and Republicans together.

– Adam Jentleson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's the blink of an eye in the life of a nation.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They've been hypothesized to act as sun shades, dust catchers and blink-reflex triggers, but there's been no really systematic study of what their true benefits are.

– David Hu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In the end, he's going to be the one to blink, if the market was really concerned then you'd see much more to the downside.

– Ken Polcari

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But, sooner or later, someone is going to have to blink when it comes to the supply of oil, the oil-producing countries are getting slammed.

– Michael Ward

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Viktor Orban has done everything, sidelining all principles and rational considerations and shared interests with our allies, to form a good relationship with Putin, but when his interests so dictated, Putin withdrew from this project in the blink of an eye.

– Bernadett Szel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

– Dick Gregory

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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