Second Quotes
6250 quotes by 3939 authors
-
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
— Mario Puzo
-
Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated…
— Gary L. Francione
-
There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.
— Ed Greenwood
-
For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the…
— Marcel Proust
-
How?" I had seen it with my own eyes, but I still didn't believe it. Then something struck me. "Take off your shirt!" "I'm not…
— Kiersten White
-
To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me…
— C.E. Murphy
-
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
— Oscar Wilde
-
After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why…
— Gertrude Stein
-
There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science…
— Raymond Chandler
-
Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across…
— David Levithan
-
good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.
— J R Ward
-
As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second,…
— Lauren Oliver
-
Watching my father plan and strategize for the resistance has taught me about trust.†She leaned forward. “Personal trust is very different from political trust,…
— Alison Goodman
-
A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second...
— Cressida Cowell
-
You’re mine, Isabeau. You’ll always be mine. Make no mistake about it. Whether you choose to forgive me and give us a second chance, or…
— Christine Feehan
-
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is…
— Ambrose Bierce
-
I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane
— Rick Riordan
-
The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my…
— Lauren Oliver
-
The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of…
— Ingmar Bergman
-
No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.
— Nora Roberts
Who Wrote These Second Quotes
3,939 authors contributed a total of 6,250 Second Quotes, led by these top contributors: