Time Frame (Split Second, #2)

by Douglas E. Richards

When the crew members who aren’t capable of bailing any water reproduce ten times faster than those who can, it doesn’t take a genius to see that the boat will eventually sink.”

“I don’t know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” —Albert Einstein

Blake wasn’t an expert, but he had to believe that an appliance that could spontaneously explode and take out half a city block would not be highly valued by refrigerator connoisseurs.

Genetic studies had found that about eighty percent of women throughout history had managed to reproduce, while only about forty percent of men had.

Time on top of a mountain runs faster than time at sea level, because the gravitational field is slightly less on the mountain. We now have clocks sophisticated enough to confirm this.”

‘Kill one man and you’re a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you’re a conqueror. Kill them all, and you’re a god.”

Trying to get Congress to pull in one direction is worse than herding cats. It’s herding self-interested, narcissistic, opportunistic cats. Who only care about getting reelected, no matter how much they pretend to care about their constituencies.”