Second Quotes
6250 quotes by 4119 authors
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You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.
— Lisa Kleypas
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Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a…
— Ally Carter
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For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again.
— Lauren Oliver
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We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes.…
— Lauren DeStefano
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Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward,…
— Lauren Oliver
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All through first and second and third hour, Eleanor rubbed her palm. Nothing happened. How could it be possible that there were that many never…
— Rainbow Rowell
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According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach…
— John Green
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For a second I think about how easy it would be to pass back to the other side, to walk straight into the laboratories and…
— Lauren Oliver
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Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
— Eric Liddell
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Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You…
— Dale Carnegie
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And I know I’m about to play second fiddle to another woman, as I should. But my love for you will never change, Maxon.
— Kiera Cass
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(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the…
— Brian Cox
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What?" He cut a grin at Kat when he saw the impressed look on her face. "Corporate espionage is my second greatest passion.' "With your…
— Ally Carter
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There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
— C.S. Lewis
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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Clarabelle...Clarabelle... You worked as Kenspeckle Grouse's assistant, did you not?' 'One of the. He fired all the others.' 'But not you?' 'He fired me on…
— Derek Landy
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For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not…
— Lauren Oliver
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I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In all Gabriel’s life he could not remember his brother giving even the prettiest of Shadowhunter girls a second glance. Yet he looked at this…
— Cassandra Clare
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Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone,…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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