Second Quotes

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The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears… — Pope John XXIII
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Jefferson asked himself â€œIn what country on earth would you rather live â€ He first answered â€œCertainly in my own where are all my… — Thomas Jefferson
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it… — Sarah Vowell
You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else. — Leo Buscaglia
But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and… — Madeleine L'Engle
I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of… — J D Salinger
Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people… — Brandon Sanderson
Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop… — James Frey
There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just… — Paul Newman
He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to… — Lisa Kleypas
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they… — Mercedes Lackey
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see… — Oscar Wilde
To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without rancor, of life… — James A. Baldwin
...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that… — N. T. Wright
Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match. — Haruki Murakami
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have… — Zadie Smith
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated… — Virginia Woolf
Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second:… — Truman Capote

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