Second Quotes

6250 quotes by 4203 authors

I have been heart broken. You can't breathe, your eyes are pouring a thousand tears a second and you can't foresee going on with love… — Jennifer Love Hewitt
I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye… — Jennifer Ellison
A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of… — Julie Andrews
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first. — Jonathan Swift
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious… — Maria Montessori
Custom is almost a second nature. — Plutarch
Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful. — Michel de Montaigne
I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the… — Marcel Proust
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he… — Samuel Johnson
I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home. — Groucho Marx
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. — Herb Caen
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come… — Joseph Wood Krutch
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong. — Martin Rees
Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other… — James E. Faust
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness.… — Deepak Chopra
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other… — Alfred Nobel
In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. — Omar N. Bradley
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. — Damon Hill

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