Second Quotes

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The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's… — P.J. O'Rourke
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it… — Warren Buffett
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for… — Colm Toibin
Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans… — William Shakespeare
You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you… — Steven Wright
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it. — Stephen King
No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture. — Christopher Moore
I begin with writing the first sentenceâ€”and trusting to Almighty God for the second. — Laurence Sterne
It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are… — Jeanette Winterson
You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by… — Janette Rallison
She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning. — James M. Barrie
I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Natureâ€™s geometric signs, In… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's… — Christopher Paolini
With writing, we have second chances. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward… — Kate Brian
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will! — Meister Eckhart
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. — Orhan Pamuk
Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps… — James M. Barrie

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