Second Quotes

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The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver… — Jodi Picoult
This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we… — Lee Child
Iâ€™m going to make the wildly unfounded assumption that Sataraâ€™s dead by your hand and not Toryâ€™s. Now, stay with me on this, Cajun. My… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's like the piano and the cello are being poured into my body, the same way the IV and blood transfusions are. And the memories… — Gayle Forman
Right there, in front of everyone, I threw my arms arond his neck and mashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second,… — James Patterson
As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third… — David Mamet
Why are you doing this? (Rafael) Because lifeâ€™s too short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And loveâ€™s… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish… — Margaret Atwood
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give… — Yogi Berra
I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on… — Karen Kingsbury
Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage. — James Frey
I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind. — Sarah Dessen
You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and… — William P. Young
Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They… — Virginia Woolf
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life. — James Joyce
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. — Jorge Luis Borges
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A… — William Butler Yeats
she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didnâ€™t breathe, God would grant her another day — Khaled Hosseini
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.Â What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered. — Oscar Wilde

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