Second Quotes

6250 quotes by 3939 authors

The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a… — Helen Hunt Jackson
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot… — Hugh Laurie
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the… — Anais Nin
Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the… — Anne Lamott
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. — Haruki Murakami
It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to… — Henry Miller
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he… — George Bernard Shaw
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. — Marcus Aurelius
And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she… — Roald Dahl
It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one — Hillary Clinton
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding… — William Faulkner
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. — George Carlin
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and… — Walt Whitman
What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide… — Philip Pullman
All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions… — John Piper
A friend is a second self. — Aristotle
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the… — Herbert Marcuse
It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those… — Carolyn Parkhurst

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