Second Quotes

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English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English… — Robert A. Heinlein
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a… — Christopher Morley
Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week." Carl Costanza - Hot Six — Janet Evanovich
He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave… — Ernest Hemingway
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight? — Charles Baudelaire
Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy. — Paulo Coelho
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel… — Guy de Maupassant
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would… — Kate Atkinson
With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing.… — Michael Ende
Shigure: JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SECOND, KYO! Kyo: SHUT UP! I HATE THIS! DO YOU REALLY GET THAT MUCH ENJOYMENT FROM PLAYING WITH… — Natsuki Takaya
As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the… — Al Gore
You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that… — J M Coetzee
I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain. — Nora Roberts
Use the right word, not its second cousin. — Mark Twain
I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever… — Fred Rogers
With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead.… — Sylvia Plath
You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal. — Janet Fitch
a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Like a word on a page that youâ€™ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared… — Sarah Dessen

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