Second Quotes
6250 quotes by 3939 authors
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Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and…
— Charlaine Harris
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She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as…
— Nicholas Sparks
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You're dying right now. Right this minute.' He looked at his watch, said, 'Right this second,' then tapped it with his finger. 'See there? That…
— Billie Letts
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The past beats inside me like a second heart.
— John Banville
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It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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I whirled around and saw no one. No psychotic mad scientists, anyway. "Jackpot, Max! Jackpot!" It was was Fang, and he was giggling hysterically. For…
— James Patterson
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What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your…
— Jodi Picoult
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You’re not asleep, and you’re not dead. I’m here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so…
— Lorrie Moore
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A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home
— Nicholas Sparks
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Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said…
— John Piper
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery,…
— Michael Ende
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When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is the household. She…
— Muhammad Yunus
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[...] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly,…
— Hugh Laurie
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This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with…
— Meg Cabot
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Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded,"…
— Rachel Caine
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no…
— Virginia Woolf
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The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with…
— Ray Bradbury
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The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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