Second Quotes
6250 quotes by 3939 authors
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Amos clapped his hands. “Khufu!†I thought he’d sneezed, because Khufu is a weird name, but then a little dude about three feet tall with…
— Rick Riordan
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,…
— Edmund Spenser
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your…
— James Thurber
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As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit his…
— Hilari Bell
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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To…
— John Donne
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Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to…
— Ally Carter
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You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the second-largest brains of…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.
— Jane Yolen
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A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from…
— Cassandra Clare
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Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.
— Sarah Dessen
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Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.
— Meg Cabot
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For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside…
— Kamila Shamsie
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There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
— Gary Shteyngart
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Answer my question, Bacchus. I’m not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You better take a more civil…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the…
— Marquis de Sade
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A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is…
— Doris Lessing
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Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any…
— Kingsley Amis
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Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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